[linux-dvb] Re: HDTV Euro1080

[Nico <nsabbi@libero.it>]

Patrick Gueneau wrote:

> > FTA ?
>
> Yes, it is supposed to be Free, at least during IBC event ;-)
>
> > record it  via dvbstream and analyse the pids with tspids, then ts2es 
> > the
> > right pids;
> > maybe in libavcodec  there's a decoder for wmv9, or maybe mplayer can 
> > use
> > windows' dmo files to decode the stream; in any case use
> > ts2es dump.ts <PID> | mplayer  -rawvideo on:format=0x<CODECID> -
> >
> > If the transmission is fta I will try to guess what to search in the
> > descriptors embedded in the PMT, so as to modify the ts demuxer
> > appropriately.
> OK. I would try to stop my VDR server to do some tests this Friday.
>
> I am not sure whether mplayer does WM9 decoding or not.
it should decode it via  its dmo loader

> Anyway, As you said, I am not sure WM9/HDTV is good news for 
> GPL/Opensource solutions.
>
> But, the idea of having a better encoded format with high quality 
> using with a lower bandwidth requirement than MPEG2 is a good idea.
>
> Patrick.
provided  that the quality is really higher: at the moment it's very low 
with the current show, even though it's (nominally) 24 Mb/s.
And we'll have to see if they sensibly lower the bitrate.




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