[vdr] Re: MPlayer front-end

[Juri Haberland <juri@koschikode.com>]

Tony Houghton wrote:
> Has anyone written a front-end for MPlayer with a FF card or DXR3 as
> output? I'm going to use a DXR3, but it has a similar issue to FF DVB
> cards. Basically I want the script to work out what options it needs,
> especially whether it needs to use -vf lavc, depending on the source.
> For MPEG 1/2 it can pass it straight through, but MPEG 4 etc have to go
> through the filter.

See http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/VDR/

It has some problems with unusual resolutions and needs a little patch
for mplayer 1.0pre5 (or is it pre4?).
I'm working on that but my time is currently very limited.

Cheers,
Juri