[vdr] Re: mplayer.sh feature request: VCD&DVD-playback

[Matthias Raus <matthias-raus_vdr@web.de>]

Steffen Barszus wrote:

>On Tuesday 18 February 2003 16:43, you wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>in VDRPORTAL it is has now been discussed a few times whether it would
>>be possible to extend the mplayer.sh (which btw. works fine!) script so
>>that (S)VCD and DVD playback would be possible. See
>>http://www.vdrportal.de/board/thread.php?threadid=1199&sid=25691293d4234980
>>b94772c284542fa5&hilight=mplayer%20ntsc&hilightuser=0 and
>>http://www.vdrportal.de/board/thread.php?threadid=1316&sid=25691293d4234980
>>b94772c284542fa5&hilight=mplayer%20ntsc&hilightuser=0
>>
>>Many users report that for instance the quality of MPlayer's DVD
>>playback is better than of the DVD-plugin. Furthermore, this would allow
>>us to play NTSC discs which is not possible with the VCD or DVD-plugin.
>> From the command line, this already works, so we "only" had to
>>integrate this into the script... Juri?
>>
>>Matthias
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>>
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>NTSC-Playback is according to my informations only possible, if the TV can 
>handle ntsc-output. But here I might be wrong. 
>
This is exactly what we want to avoid. MPlayer is able to convert the 
video from NTSC to PAL "on the fly".

>
>The often asked question about menus and mplayer: mplayer can't show 
>dvd-menus, nor svcd ones (can the vcd-plugin handle this ?). And both plugins 
>are maintened.  But the extension of the script should be easy. 
>
>BTW: can the mplayer.sh handle ogm-XCDs and/or iso-images ? Should be easy 
>too. 
>
>
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