[vdr] Re: Playing DVD ?

[Christian Pesch <christian.pesch@coremedia.com>]

Tilo Renkl wrote:

> > > Maybe it is possible to use Xine for the DVD-Playback and pipe
> > > its output to mplayer for dvb-output.
> > >      
> > That might work on a 2GHz Box, but i doubt that it will work 
> > on a 200MHz Pentium which is currently sufficient for DVD playback.
> AFAIK mplayer plays nearly every mpeg-stream _without_ recoding
> to dvb-output, so there should be nearly no difference in needed
> CPU-power.
I doubt that broad asseration. If you try to play
divx 3.11 ("almost" mpeg-4 and thats a mpeg stream,
isn't it?) this has to be recoded to mpeg-2 for the
dvb output. And the dvb output is quite picky about
the format of the pictures, so recoding to a format
the dvb card supports, is required, too.

--
Christian 




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