[mythtv-users] BBC HD Trial

[Dan Seddon]

David Watkins wrote:
> On 15/05/06, Robert Johnston <anaerin at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> On 5/15/06, David Watkins <watkinshome at gmail.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> G:\movies>mplayer HD1.mpg
>>> MPlayer dev-CVS-050928-16:38-3.4.2 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
>>> CPU: Advanced Micro Devices  (Family: 8, Stepping: 0)
>>> Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
>>> CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
>>> Compiled with runtime CPU detection - WARNING - this is not optimal!
>>> To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with --disable-runtime-cpudetection.
>>> Creating config file: G:/movies/mplayer/config
>>>
>>> Playing HD1.mpg.
>>> TS file format detected.
>>> DEMUX OPEN, AUDIO_ID: -1, VIDEO_ID: -1, SUBTITLE_ID: -1,
>>> PROBING UP TO 2000000, PROG: 0
>>> VIDEO MPEG2(pid=1502)AUDIO A52(pid=1505) NO SUBS (yet)!  PROGRAM N. 0
>>> Opened TS demuxer, audio: 2000(pid 1505), video: 10000002(pid 1502)...POS=13912
>>>       
>> It looks like the Video's got the wrong PID (Or you requested the
>> wrong PID), as MPlayer is saying it's got MPEG2 on PID 1502, when it
>> should report H264/x264.
>>
>> Though it looks like it's also a (possible) problem with mplayer (And
>> VLC) according to this:
>>
>> http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=20387
>>
>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.mplayer.user/43896
>>
>> I think the problem is that so far, no codec (on linux) supports MBAFF.
>>     
>
> I've been doing some reading and I think you're right.  I also think
> that if it does become supported then it still won't run on any
> hardware that I've going to have access to in the immediate future
> :-(
>
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> D
> __
Though if we could get a codec that would support this on linux (the 
past record of new codecs being supported on linux is pretty good 
surely?), then it just means you can't play liveTV as it would be 
possible to transcode the h.264 back in to mpeg2 meaning it would take 
up twice the disk space (or more?) but would be playable?

Cheers

Dan