[mythtv-users] BBC HD Trial

[David Watkins]

On 15/05/06, Robert Johnston <anaerin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/15/06, David Watkins <watkinshome at gmail.com> wrote:
> > G:\movies>mplayer HD1.mpg
> > MPlayer dev-CVS-050928-16:38-3.4.2 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
> > CPU: Advanced Micro Devices  (Family: 8, Stepping: 0)
> > Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
> > CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
> > Compiled with runtime CPU detection - WARNING - this is not optimal!
> > To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with --disable-runtime-cpudetection.
> > Creating config file: G:/movies/mplayer/config
> >
> > Playing HD1.mpg.
> > TS file format detected.
> > DEMUX OPEN, AUDIO_ID: -1, VIDEO_ID: -1, SUBTITLE_ID: -1,
> > PROBING UP TO 2000000, PROG: 0
> > VIDEO MPEG2(pid=1502)AUDIO A52(pid=1505) NO SUBS (yet)!  PROGRAM N. 0
> > Opened TS demuxer, audio: 2000(pid 1505), video: 10000002(pid 1502)...POS=13912
>
> It looks like the Video's got the wrong PID (Or you requested the
> wrong PID), as MPlayer is saying it's got MPEG2 on PID 1502, when it
> should report H264/x264.
>
> Though it looks like it's also a (possible) problem with mplayer (And
> VLC) according to this:
>
> http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=20387
>
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.mplayer.user/43896
>
> I think the problem is that so far, no codec (on linux) supports MBAFF.

I've been doing some reading and I think you're right.  I also think
that if it does become supported then it still won't run on any
hardware that I've going to have access to in the immediate future
:-(

Thanks for the reply.

D