[mythtv] mplayer quality vs myth internal player

[Bill Williamson]

For me with .22 and the advanced handbrake profile and mkv you cannot
even pause nor quit playback.


Forgive topposting, emailing from a phone.

On Thursday, April 15, 2010, Simon Kenyon <simon at koala.ie> wrote:
> i converted a dvd to x264 with handbrake (fringe season 1 disk 1 - PAL)
> i then decided to watch an episode on my nice big samsung tv
> as i don't currently have a frontend there i used upnp to an xbox 360
> the quality was absolutely fantastic - nearly as good as HD
> i watched the next episode on my desktop machine with myth
> the quality was nowhere near as good
>
> so i had a look at the same episode using mplayer and xine
> the quality as good
>
> the effect i observed was of accumulated errors - which would disappear every 5 seconds or so - only to start building up
> it seemed to be in areas of slow movement - like a face in closeup
>
> is this a known problem?
>
> machine is an Athlon 64 x2
> running a pretty recent trunk build (#24017)
> --
> simon
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