[vdr] Re: MPlayer front-end

[Jukka Tastula <jukka.tastula@kotinet.com>]

On Sunday 31 October 2004 00:55, Tony Houghton wrote:
> Has anyone written a front-end for MPlayer with a FF card or DXR3 as
> output? I'm going to use a DXR3, but it has a similar issue to FF DVB
> cards. Basically I want the script to work out what options it needs,
> especially whether it needs to use -vf lavc, depending on the source.
> For MPEG 1/2 it can pass it straight through, but MPEG 4 etc have to go
> through the filter.

There is an excellent script for this purpose at 
http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/VDR/

It takes a filename as an argument and then (based on what 
format/resolution/frame rate the file is in) calls mplayer to play it out 
according to the config file.