[mythtv-users] Another ECS Liva Review

[Stuart Auchterlonie]

On 12/08/15 17:48, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 4:25 PM, Kirk Bocek <t004 at kbocek.com> wrote:
> ....
>> I set the profile to OpenGL (High and Normal) and the video played fine. So,
>> yup, no MPEG-1 under VAAPI.
> 
> In *theory* VAAPI should support MPEG-1, but given the
> dearth of MPEG-1 content, I would guess no one has
> contributed the patches to MythTV to add the support
> (in double theory, it should be reasonably easy to add
> since any MPEG-2 decoder can decode MPEG-1;
> Said by someone who has not looked at the current
> VAAPI codes in quite some time).

I did some digging yesterday and there was a discussion
a while ago on the libva mailing list about mpeg1 not
working properly and even crashing with vaapi.

The simplest solution may be what was suggested by Mike
and transcode it to mpeg2 :)


Regards
Stuart