[mythtv] less CPU-intensive MPEG-2 decoding in CVS

henri henri at qais.com
Tue Jan 25 16:42:20 EST 2005


can we still use the output filters with this?

henri

On 25 Jan 2005, Jeremiah Morris <jm at whpress.com> wrote: 

> Just a quick announcement about a recently added feature:
> 
> The latest CVS now includes a version of libmpeg2 
> (http://libmpeg2.sourceforge.net) as an alternative to the FFMpeg-based 
> video decoding. FFMpeg still handles the demuxing, but the video can be 
> handed to libmpeg2 instead. This takes significantly less CPU on my 
> test machines, so it's good for lower-end systems; my 450MHz Cube can 
> finally handle SDTV.
> 
> If you use MPEG-2 video and want to try this out, enable the "Use 
> libmpeg2 for video decoding" on the first screen of Playback settings 
> -- it's disabled by default, so you'll have to explicitly enable it. 
> Also, you must have XvMC turned off; right now, the libmpeg2 path won't 
> work with XvMC, and forces FFMpeg decoding instead.
> 
> - Jeremiah
> 


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