On 2/21/06, Dirk Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Wander Winkelhorst" wrote: > > [Snip!] > >> > > >> >> > >> >> I'm very interested in this, and would appreciate the patch being sent > >> >> to me, but I'm not sure how Dischi would feel about it on this list. > >> > > >> > Well, I have to hack a bit more on it to make it really usefull to > >> > even developers but expect a release in a few days. > >> > >> I'm not so sure I want mplayer for watching tv. A tv stream may change > >> From 4:3 to 16:9. Mplayer does not see that, you can't change the > >> filter chain while mplayer is running. So IMHO xine (or maybe > >> vlc/gstreamer) is the better choice. I have a recording starting with > >> 4:3 ads and after that the 16:9 movie starts. It look very bad in > >> mplayer. > > > > Hmm.. good point, but I don't have a 16:9 TV, and I do have a working > > patch for MPlayer, so I guess I'm still going to keep on working on > > MPlayer. > > I also have no 16:9 TV. The bug is that the dvb stream here is always > 720x576, they only set the stream to 4:3 and 16:9 based on the > program. So when it switches to 16:9, the 720x576 need to be > interpreted different, no matter what tv you have. This makes mplayer > useless for me right now.
Ahh.. I see.. Still, I'm just using plain analog cable tv-capture (PVR500) so this doesn't concern me. But I understand your problem. > > > Perhaps it might be possible to switch MPlayer processes if you detect > > a switch between 4:3 and 16:9? (Yeah... it sounds really ugly to me > > too) > > IIRC mplayer is not designed to do that. On such event, you need to > change post processing filters like software scale and expand, too. I wasn't talking about MPlayer design, I was thinking more along the lines of: killall mplayer mplayer /dev/video0 aka. the brute-force way :-) Wander!!!!! > Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind. > -- (Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid3432&bid#0486&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Freevo-devel mailing list Freevo-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-devel
