[mythtv] less CPU-intensive MPEG-2 decoding in CVS

Thomas M. Pluth tpluth at surewest.net
Tue Jan 25 17:17:38 EST 2005


> Just a quick announcement about a recently added feature:
>
> The latest CVS now includes a version of libmpeg2
> (http://libmpeg2.sourceforge.net) as an alternative to the FFMpeg-based
> video decoding. FFMpeg still handles the demuxing, but the video can be
> handed to libmpeg2 instead. This takes significantly less CPU on my
> test machines, so it's good for lower-end systems; my 450MHz Cube can
> finally handle SDTV.
>
> If you use MPEG-2 video and want to try this out, enable the "Use
> libmpeg2 for video decoding" on the first screen of Playback settings
> -- it's disabled by default, so you'll have to explicitly enable it.
> Also, you must have XvMC turned off; right now, the libmpeg2 path won't
> work with XvMC, and forces FFMpeg decoding instead.
>
> - Jeremiah
>>

  Will this handle HDTV MPEG-2 recordings as well?





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