[linux-dvb] Re: mplayer HDTV

[Holger Waechtler <holger@convergence.de>]

Nico wrote:
> Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>
> > I'm having trouble with mplayer with HD stations too (in particular Nine
> > and Ten in Melbourne Australia). It'll quit very shortly after starting
> > with:
> >
> > size restrictions for MP@ML or MPEG1 exceeded! (1440x1088)
> >
> > If I run dvb:/// and tune to that program, it will keep playing but the
> > video breaks up badly every few seconds. If I capture some data to 
> > disk and play it back the video seems quite slow, and still gives the 
> > above
> > messages. The captured file plays ok in Xine though.
> >
> > I've got a Duron 1.2 GHz; playing back the HD file takes about 55% of
> > the CPU, according to top. About 35% in xine.
*g*

> Mplayer doesn't like HDTV streams as they are, try to rescale the movie 
> before playing it:
>
> mplayer -vf scale=720:400 hdtv.ts
>
> playback should be smoother, but it will keep on complaining  about the 
> resolution :(
> I don't know what else to do about it at the moment, try to browse the 
> mplayer-users ML archive.
is this known, has this been reported to the mplayer developers?

Holger



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