[mythtv-users] Video file with poor playback on ION board

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On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 01:13:14PM +0000, Richard Morton wrote:
> An easy method is Play the file in VLC and go to Codec Information
> from the menu to see how it is encoded. My guess is that the file is
> an HD DIVX/XVID/MPEG4part2 and this codec is not supported by
> graphics/hardware acceleration. Only MPEG2 and H264 are supported by
> the ION1 chipset. Or the file is H264 but it is using options in the
> spec which are not supported in hardware.

    The -identify option in mplayer is good for this sort of thing.

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