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| Intel Core2 Quad CPU    Q6600  @ 2.40GHz || 1600.000 MHz || 4050584kB || 2.6.22-14-generic || ffvc1 || 1920 x 1080 || 22580 kb/s || HD-DVD Rip of "300." MLP Audio track played with patched mplayer.
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| Intel Core2 Quad CPU    Q6600  @ 2.40GHz || 1600.000 MHz || 4050584kB || 2.6.22-14-generic || h.264 || 1920 x 1080 || 32469 kb/s || Blu-ray rip of "Casino Royale."  
 
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Revision as of 01:59, 17 January 2008

Playback of HD content - User Reports

This page is for playback reports regarding High Definition Content. This page will serve as a resource for users in selecting hardware for their MythTV systems.

How to produce information for this page

Paste the following into a file (eg, hdplayback.sh), chmod +x the file, and run it on a file known to play back perfectly on a given system (eg, ./hdplayback.sh moviefile.mkv). It will produce an output file called hdreport.txt. hdreport.txt is in wiki format. Edit this page, find the most suitable position in the table to place the data (by CPU spec), and paste the output there. Edit the "Comments" section to share any special command line needed to get the program to play smoothly.

This script requires mplayer to run properly. 

#!/bin/sh
#
# Script to generate wiki formatted HD Playback report.  Only
# run this on files that play back smoothly!
#

CPUNAME=`cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep "model name" | sed -e 's/model name\t: //' | head -n 1 | sed -e 's/\t/ /'`
CPUMHZ=`cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep "cpu MHz" | sed -e 's/cpu MHz//' | sed 's/ *//g' | sed 's/\t*://' | head -n 1`
MEMTOTAL=`cat /proc/meminfo |grep MemTotal | sed 's/MemTotal//' | sed 's/ *//g' | sed 's/\t*://' | head -n 1`
KERNEL=`uname -r`
COMMENTS="No Comments."
WIDTH=`mplayer -ao null -vo null -frames 0 -identify $1 2>/dev/null | grep "ID_VIDEO_WIDTH" | sed -e 's/ID_VIDEO_WIDTH=//'`
HEIGHT=`mplayer -ao null -vo null -frames 0 -identify $1 2> /dev/null | grep "ID_VIDEO_HEIGHT" | sed -e 's/ID_VIDEO_HEIGHT=//'`
RESOLUTION="$WIDTH x $HEIGHT"
FORMAT=`mplayer -ao null -vo null -frames 0 -identify $1 2>/dev/null | grep "ID_VIDEO_CODEC" | sed -e 's/ID_VIDEO_CODEC=//'`
BITRATE=`mplayer -ao null -vo null -frames 0 -identify $1 2>/dev/null | grep "ID_VIDEO_BITRATE" | sed -e 's/ID_VIDEO_BITRATE=//'`

echo "|-" >> hdreport.txt
echo "| $CPUNAME || $CPUMHZ MHz || $MEMTOTAL || $KERNEL || $FORMAT || $RESOLUTION || $BITRATE || $COMMENTS" >> hdreport.txt
echo "|-" >> hdreport.txt
echo "Output saved in file hdreport.txt.  Paste the contents at http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php?title=HD_Playback_Reports"

Occasionally this code will return a "0" for bitrate. When this happens, view the bitrate manually by running "ffmpeg -i filename" on the file, and looking for a line like: 

Duration: 01:56:32.5, start: 20523.753856, bitrate: 22580 kb/s

In this case, the bitrate is 22580 kb/s. This method can also be used in lieu of the script above to get the relevant information about the file.

User Reported Data

Processor Type Processor Speed Memory Total Kernel Video Codec Resolution Bitrate Comments
Intel Core2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz 1600.000 MHz 4050584kB 2.6.22-14-generic h.264 1920 x 1080 32469 kb/s Blu-ray rip of "Casino Royale."
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