[mythtv-users] Quicktime 1080p mov files smoother than 720p mkv (Debian)

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Thu Apr 9 22:45:23 UTC 2009


On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Jongi <jongitech at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> mplayer -vo vdpau -vc ffh264vdpau
>
> -vc has in fact 4 options depending what you are playing
>
> mplayer -vc help|grep vdpau
> ffmpeg12vdpau ffmpeg    working   FFmpeg MPEG-1/2 (VDPAU)  [mpegvideo_vdpau]
> ffwmv3vdpau ffmpeg    working   FFmpeg WMV3/WMV9 (VDPAU)  [wmv3_vdpau]
> ffvc1vdpau  ffmpeg    working   FFmpeg WVC1 (VDPAU)  [vc1_vdpau]
> ffh264vdpau ffmpeg    working   FFmpeg H.264 (VDPAU)  [h264_vdpau]

>
> Just thought of something else, but don't mkv files contain differing codecs
> (if you will) meaning that any of the options could be relevant for any file
> that is mkv? please forgive my ignorance as i am still trying to get up to
> speed with these hi-def compression formats.

codecs and containers are different. most HD video files have h264
codec video. that can be in an avi, mp4 or mkv containers. The mplayer
command line will  be the same either way.


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