[vdr] Re: Playing DVD ?

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Tilo Renkl wrote:
> 
> >
> > 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.

If they all use patched versions of libdvdnav, wouldn't it be a good
idea to just _fix_ libdvdnav?

Just my 2ct...

Klaus


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