[mythtv-users] BBC HD on Freesat

[Robert]

John Taylor wrote:
> whoops, cat pressed send button before finishing!
>> Now that freesat has been launched here in the UK, it's time to work
>> exactly what we need to watch it!
>>
>> It seems BBC HD is broadcast in MPEG4 (H.264,ts) at around 16259kbps
>> video, 256kbps audio
>>
>> It seems the internal player is unable to play this. I have /just/
>> about managed to play it dropping frames (-lavdopts
>> skiploopfilter=all) with mplayer and the latest ffmpeg
>>
>> My set up
>>
> AMS Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 6000+ CPU
> 2GB RAM
> Gainward GeForce 8600GTS video card
> Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon
> 
> 1 core is constantly around 95%, doesn't matter if I try to play it
> multithreaded as the video stream and/or ffmpeg doesn't support this
> (the core being used for decoding just alternates)
> 
> It's my impression the problem is with ffmpeg from reading various
> mailing lists. Is there anyone trying to get HD H.264 working well in
> the UK?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> John

My dual core AMD Athlon 64 4200+ with 2Gb RAM, Gentoo, Geforce 7600GS 
NVidia graphics card running just as a frontend (backend is over a 100Mb 
LAN) using the nvidia binary drivers will just about play it.  It has 
the occasional glitch but nothing major.

I'm running the latest 0.21.xxx Mythtv (not svn).  I had to fiddle 
around with the playback profiles a bit to make it work.  I changed my 
settings to just have one playback profile (so I could be sure which on 
was getting used!) that uses the standard decoder, 2 CPUS, xv-blit and 
the softblend osd renderer.

I find that if I have anything else running, even de-niced processes (I 
normally have boinc running) then it can't cope.

Robert.