[mythtv-users] BBC HD stream with latest MPlayer-1.0pre8

[Dan Seddon]

David Watkins wrote:
> On 19/06/06, Neil Sedger <mythtv-users at moley.org.uk> wrote:
>   
>> The latest MPlayer release - 1.0pre8 posted 11th June including the
>> latest ffmpeg - plays the BBC's 1080i test stream downloaded from
>> somewhere (featuring Attenborough and a storm).
>>     
>
> Does this mean than mencoder will be able to transcode it into mpeg2?
> If so, any tips on how to do so would be very welcome.
>   
I'll second that!

N.B is there any benefit in compiling mplayer with icc (intel's 
compiler)? I've read that it has some performance benefits (especially 
on SSE stuff, which you'd think mplayer would benefit from) - though I 
have no experience of this myself.

Dan