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

Jongi jongitech at gmail.com
Thu Apr 9 22:13:30 UTC 2009



On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 16:39 -0400, Paul Gallaway wrote:

> > It just occurred to me what you are saying. mplayer is an external program
> > tht mythtv calls and is independent to whether mythv has vdpau support or
> > not. so as long as i have an mplayer that supports vdpau (which version
> > would that be?), i should set the vdpau option for mplayer as long as i am
> > running an nvidia driver that suports it?
> >
> > If so, what are the typical mplayer options that should boost 720p/1080p
> > playback?
> >
> 
> I haven't said anything about VDPAU. If you're using the deb's from
> debian-multimedia.org (which I think you said in another post) you
> don't have VDPAU support built in. As pointed out in the email from
> Johnny you'd need to compile this into Myth using the source from
> Jean-Yves which patches VDPAU it into 0.21-fixes. Otherwise you'll
> need to install trunk.
> 
> Mplayer is an external program. And you are correct it does support
> VDPAU but you would again need to build from source to get a version
> supporting VDPAU in Lenny (or find another repository that has it).
> 
> What I /AM/ saying is that mplayer is an external program and that
> mplayer is built using a more recent ffmpeg source with better h.264
> support in comparison to the MythTV internal player. As a result I use
> mplayer (or VLC) to playback files in mythvideo because I have poor
> results with the internal player. Where the internal player fails
> mplayer is able to succeed. Try it (did you even try to play the file
> from the CLI as I suggested in my previous email?). If it fails then
> maybe you need to look into VDPAU but I don't think I'd recommend you
> go that route unless you install MythBuntu instead of Debian and use
> Jean-Yves repository.
> 
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythVideo#External_Player_Configuration
> 
> Field reports to this list indicate that the Internal player in trunk
> is much better as it has had a code refresh (or two) from ffmpeg so
> this will be less of an issue in the future.


I think I didn't make myself clear. I was saying that I am thinking it
doesn't matter whether the myth I am running is VDPAU or not (at this
moment I am not using LiveTV on my myth install). And because I am not
using LiveTV, it doesn't matter that mythtv doesn't support VDPAU (maybe
unless using the Internal Player for video playback?) because if I use a
version of mplayer with VDPAU support, it will be called as an external
program and the fact that myth is not VDPAU "enabled" should not matter
if I am running a version of mplayer that is.

As I said in another reply I had run the videos in mplayer and they were
more sluggish than the myth Internal Player. In fact mplayer was my
initial player when I started this thread (which is also stated in the
initial mail)

I will be running this system as Debian Testing from tomorrow so
hopefully the mplayer I pull from there will play ball as the current
one fails with -vo vdpau. 
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