I tried the softdevice plugin today. It worked fairly well considering it hasn't really been designed to output to a TV, which has different sync requirements from a monitor. The A/V sync was close enough and there were few enough frame jumps to make it quite watchable.
However, softplay wouldn't work properly with the XVid files I tried, only showing a few corrupt frames. I'm pretty sure it's an ffmpeg problem because there were similar problems with some things I've been doing myself with ffmpeg lately - I haven't got as far as displaying the frames, but it does seem to keep stalling while decoding and the Debian package version was complaining about "VOP not coded" all the time.
Anyway, I tried upgrading from the Debian libavcodec to the latest CVS, to make sure I don't annoy anyone if and when I report this problem on the ffmpeg mailing list, and then softdevice wouldn't work. It just shows a frozen picture with the initial OSD caption you get when starting to play a channel. softplay wouldn't compile either but I just needed to change . to -> in a few places.
So will there be a new softdevice and softplay compatible with the latest ffmpeg soon?
On Wed, 7 Sep 2005 20:16:54 +0100, Tony Houghton wrote
I tried the softdevice plugin today. It worked fairly well considering it hasn't really been designed to output to a TV, which has different sync requirements from a monitor. The A/V sync was close enough and there were few enough frame jumps to make it quite
watchable.
However, softplay wouldn't work properly with the XVid files I tried, only showing a few corrupt frames. I'm pretty sure it's an ffmpeg problem because there were similar problems with some things I've been doing myself with ffmpeg lately - I haven't got as far as displaying the frames, but it does seem to keep stalling while decoding and the Debian package version was complaining about "VOP not coded" all the time.
Which version of xvidcore are you using? The problem I have with softplay is with a mpeg2 file that plays correctly with MPlayer using libmpeg2 but only gives a black screen with corrupted audio on softplay. Start and stop works ok.
Anyway, I tried upgrading from the Debian libavcodec to the latest CVS, to make sure I don't annoy anyone if and when I report this problem on the ffmpeg mailing list, and then softdevice wouldn't work. It just shows a frozen picture with the initial OSD caption you get when starting to play a channel. softplay wouldn't compile either but I just needed to change . to -> in a few places.
I had problems compiling softdevice against ffmpeg CVS. I had to add -lavutil in the Makefile. ( Just as info. )
So will there be a new softdevice and softplay compatible with the latest ffmpeg soon?
I'm using soft[device|play] and ffmpeg, all CVS of 20050905. No problem with freezing at all. Have you tried CVS of soft[device|play]?
Not that much of help I'm afraid but maybe some hints ;)
/Mel
In 20050907220347.M79048@mellander.org, Per Mellander wrote:
On Wed, 7 Sep 2005 20:16:54 +0100, Tony Houghton wrote
However, softplay wouldn't work properly with the XVid files I tried, only showing a few corrupt frames. I'm pretty sure it's an ffmpeg problem because there were similar problems with some things I've been doing myself with ffmpeg lately - I haven't got as far as displaying the frames, but it does seem to keep stalling while decoding and the Debian package version was complaining about "VOP not coded" all the time.
Which version of xvidcore are you using? The problem I have with softplay is with a mpeg2 file that plays correctly with MPlayer using libmpeg2 but only gives a black screen with corrupted audio on softplay. Start and stop works ok.
1.1.0-beta2. It's a Debian package, but I also downloaded a tarball today which is the same version.
So will there be a new softdevice and softplay compatible with the latest ffmpeg soon?
I'm using soft[device|play] and ffmpeg, all CVS of 20050905. No problem with freezing at all. Have you tried CVS of soft[device|play]?
No, I was stupid not to think of CVS softdevice. I don't think I'll get a chance to mess around with it all again until next week.
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