> get_iplayer doesn't attempt any transcoding of video - it > just remuxes the flv into mp4
And also to the suggestion of using python script Kieran... I'm not *quite* that nerdy to pipe my video through mplayer, I usually give up in frustration before getting it working! ;-) I ended up giving XBMC v10 a spin, with the iplayer video add-on and DXVA enabled in the options it works beautifully with BBC HD material. Couple of crashes here and there but that was me taxing the machine a bit too much possibly. Can't get MythTV to even install, I'm using the premade compile by the Australian (linked from the MythTV wiki) but there seems to be no MySQL installation even though his installer should have set it up. To be honest, if XBMC works on an ongoing basis as neatly as it did just now, I'm quite happy with that. (and so is the netbook!) @Anthony - I've noticed that also, my main PC (with a 9800GTX+ in it) has full hardware acceleration support for videos with fullscreen overlays and generally always looks good. But then the quad core would handle software rendering no probs. XBMC's iplayer plugin also streams the live channels and red button along with the on-demand content, and you can force HQ and format preferences wherever available... Loving that! Now to go install the TVCatchup add-on and compare stream quality ;) I know this doesn't solve the problem of why the /iplayer player seemingly can't initialise the hardware for doing the H.264 heavy lifting and I'll keep on investigating in that respect. Been experimenting with Chrome, IE9 and will try Opera later but don't have much hopes without getting hold of a debug version and trying to force some options (and I've not used Flash for a faiiiir while so that'll be a nice journey into the unknown). In the meantime, XBMC's the simplest way to get it working - really impressed with how much it's come on since I last used it (which was on a modded Xbox 1st gen). - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
