[vdr] Re: Playing DVD ?

["Tilo Renkl" <tilo@diredare.de>]

> 
> as adreas already stated: the dvb mpeg decoder will not be 
> able to play
> many of these mpeg streams 'cause of hardware limitations. i 
> can not see
> the difference between feeding the hardware decoder by 
> mplayer or by the
> dvd plugin, when no reencoding will happen. mplayer (or even xine) can
> only improve dvd support when they also do the mpeg2 decoding. (and
> recode it to mpeg1/2 for dvb output.) at least that is, how i have
> understood the whole problem.
> 

Wrong. MPlayer never reencodes Mpeg data! And I can Play any DVD with
Mplayer with a CPU-Load of 1-3%. 
The MPlayer Team decided to use a special patched version of libdvdnav
a while ago. Same as Xine uses a special version of libdvdnav.
The problem with mplayer is that you only can simply watch a DVD. No 
switching of audio channels no menues ... And Xine can do that things, but 
no output to DVB. :-(

Tilo


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