[vdr] Re: Solved: Mplayer-plugin output blocky..

[Onno Kreuzinger <onnok@web.de>]

Hi
nice to hear that it works.


Ari Huttunen wrote:

> Getting back to this earlier thread, it seems I have it
> properly working now.
>
> The trick here is to manually encode the MPEG-4 into MPEG-2 with this:
> mencoder $1 -ovc lavc -oac lavc -lavcopts 
> vcodec=mpeg2video:vbitrate=4000:acodec=mp2 -o $2
> Then you play the resulting MPEG-2 file with the MPlayer-plugin, which
> just outputs it to the DVB card as-is. The result is not exactly as
> good as the original, but if one doesn't have the original for
> comparison, there's nothing wrong with it.
well i could make digicam snapshots to show that thos is what i expirience
when watching divx/mpeg4 with the mplayer plugin (on a normal 55cm pal TV).
even with bpp ratios below 0.20 used for mpeg4 encoding.

> I think I'll just end up converting MPEG-2 into VDR, and throwing out 
> that MPlayer plugin. Is there a suggested tool for converting MPEG-4 to
> VDR? Just rename the MPEG-2 file to 001.vdr and run the genindex?
that should be it, but remember to use genindex 1.2

> As to converting the VDR into MPEG-4, I noticed that
> xvidcore-1.0.0-beta2 is marginally better than MPlayer-1.0pre3 (lavc
> mpeg-4), when I used both at 1800 kbit/s.
thats correct, xvid is more advanced, while lavc is more portable and
(atleast in mplayer) slighly faster and smoother on replay.

> Ari
Regards Onno Kreuzinger


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