[mythtv-users] Ticket 11377 was: Region free DVD player?

[Shawn King]

On 05/04/2014 02:53 AM, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> On 9 April 2014 15:50, faginbagin <mythtv at hbuus.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the update. I'm still working on this, albeit slowly.
>>
>> I have tried the nvidia-319-updates package (aka nvidia 319.60 driver). It's the most recent driver supported by ubuntu package management on precise. No change.
>>
>> I do know that mplayer, as provided by Ubuntu precise, uses an older version of libavcodec 53.32.2, vs mythtv fixes/0.27 which is 54.92.100, but I haven't checked ffmpeg or libav commit histories to see if there's any substantive differences between these versions when it comes to vdpau decoding.
> this issue has now been corrected in master...
>
> it's a significant change, with the possibility of introduced regressions.
>
> I'll backport it to the devel/027candidates in a couple of days and it
> will sit there for at least a week, while people can experiment.
>
> Having said that, I've tried it against all the video samples library
> I have. And I haven't noticed any regressions (other than the DVD
> sample and the Ondine clip now plays just fine with vdpau)
>
> Additional new support:
> -9/10 bit h264 videos
> -MJPEG (typically from some digital camera)
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thanks for adding those patches aswell as the fallback to software stuff 
i can finally use vdpau again and drop a few patches off my buildlist