Tony Houghton wrote:
On Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:48:57 +0200 Pasi Juppo Pasi@Juppo.fi wrote:
Partly question and partly proposal. Maybe this is not VDR related but e.g. xineliboutput etc. related.
I'm not an expert on satellite systems but I'd assume that there are different frame rates in satellite systems available (shall be compared to cable and terresterial as well). Instead of doing pull-down/pull-up "conversions" it would be nice to playback according to the framerate of the material. This should be an option as it is fully dependant on the output and display devices whether they support this feature or not.
The same applies also to mplayer-plugin.
Would this be possible to implement?
Yes, boxstar does this, but it's a bit limited by its current reliance on external players. DirectFB players can set the screen mode, while in X boxstar sets it first with xrandr. Boxstar has to be able to use mplayer -identify on the stream first to determine the frame rate and it can't change it midstream. Boxstar can't tell the frame rate of what vdr-sxfe or whatever is using, so it has to use an option. Luckily most people receive transmissions all in the same frame rate even if they watch foreign DVDs or downloaded videos, so boxstar can cope with this.
I checked boxstar web-page (http://boxstar.sourceforge.net/index.html) and I have to say that the goal of the project is ambiguous. Hopefully the developer can actually do it.
Br, Pasi