[mythtv-users] Video file with poor playback on ION board

[Phil Wild]

On 23 January 2011 21:13, Richard Morton <richard.e.morton at gmail.com> wrote:
> An easy method is Play the file in VLC and go to Codec Information
> from the menu to see how it is encoded. My guess is that the file is
> an HD DIVX/XVID/MPEG4part2 and this codec is not supported by
> graphics/hardware acceleration. Only MPEG2 and H264 are supported by
> the ION1 chipset. Or the file is H264 but it is using options in the
> spec which are not supported in hardware.
>

Under codec details I see

Steam 0
   Type: Video
   Codec: avc1
   Language: English
   Resolution: 1280x720
   Display resolution: 1280x720
   Frame rate: 23.976023

Cheers

Phil