[vdr] OT: Finnish Yle HD olympics channel..

[Lauri Tischler]

Seppo Ingalsuo wrote:
> Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
>> Maybe try with recent mplayer (from svn).. and give it 
>> "-demuxer lavf -lavdopts fast:threads=2 -no-correct-pts" or something similar..
>> you can also try with threads=4 etc.. 
>>   
> "mplayer -demuxer lavf -lavdopts fast:threads=4 -nocorrect-pts ..." 
> gives steady but slow motion (roughly 50% speed) video. It is weird that 
> the load on CPU1 and CPU2 is less than 40% during playback according to 
> gnome system monitor. Somehow mplayer is not able to max both CPUs close 
> to 100%.
> 
> With mplayer I noticed that the video is 1080i -- it is silly to 
> broadcast interlaced crap. That probably explains why vdr xinelibout 
> choked due to greedy de-interlacer that is pretty power consuming for 
> 1080i. Other channels such as Arte HD (arte 
> HD;ZDFvision:11362:hC23M5O0S1:S19.2E:22000:6210:6221=deu,6222=fra:6230:0:11120:1:1011:0) 
> work OK.

Hi. What card are you using to get DVB-S2 ?
CPU power ? Dual-core ? GHz ?

I have now AMD X2 4600 and DVB-T YLE HD is a bit jerky, sometimes,
playing recordings from YLE HD is totally jerky.
Wondering if getting quad-core 2.6GHz would help any.