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

[Jongi]

On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 11:56 -0400, Johnny wrote:

> > I need to get my Debian system running as testing. Then hopefully I will
> > have an mplayer version that is VDPAU enabled and can test it out.
> 
> I seriously doubt that VDPAU mplayer will be in Debian testing. It may
> be in unstable or perhaps somebody has done a backport. It seems like
> you don't know much about what VDPAU is and when it was released. The
> API was only announced in Nonmember
> (http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=123091) and is only
> supported in beta drivers. So it still hasn't even been officially
> released and it isn't supported in any stable release of any software
> that I am aware of. When they released the API, they released some
> patches to make mplayer VDPAU capable, to demonstrate how to implement
> it. I don't know if those patches have been accepted upstream and
> incorporated into mplayer, but if they have they certainly won't be in
> Debian testing this fast. I believe most people are compiling mplayer
> themselves and incorporating the patches from nvidia. It is quite
> incredible how quickly VDPAU support has been incorporated into
> mythtv. If you are waiting for VDPAU support to be available from the
> standard Debian repositories, you are going to be waiting for a long
> time. Your best bet is to compile mythtv with the .21 backport patches
> from jean-yves or mplayer with the patches from nvidia. If you are
> lucky you may be able to find somebody who has an mplayer backport for
> Debian testing. I suppose you could also move to .22 trunk or switch
> distros to Ubuntu where there are certainly repositories available
> that have mythtv and mplayer with VDPAU support.
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I had checked that Debian testing was running the below:

ii  mplayer                           1:1.0.rc2svn20090316-0.1
The Ultimate Movie Player For Linux

I assumed a 16 March 2009 build would have VDPAU support.
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