On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 12:09:36 +1100 Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If I run dvb:/// and tune to that program, it will keep playing but the > video breaks up badly every few seconds. If I capture some data to disk > and play it back the video seems quite slow, and still gives the above > messages. The captured file plays ok in Xine though. > > I've got a Duron 1.2 GHz; playing back the HD file takes about 55% of > the CPU, according to top. About 35% in xine. Are you using xv (-vo xv) instead of x11? I have no problem playing a 15Mbit/s 1920x1088 stream from Astra at 19.0E on an Athlon XP2400 and "mplayer -vo xv -cache 15000 /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0" (mplayer-1.0-0.5.pre2.20031107.fr from freshrpms). Try playing with "-cache" and "-framedrop" and check if your screen resolution is big enough (mplayer wants a 1934x1088 xv window and has problems if I am at 1280x1024). Try also "-nosound" just to be sure. The "size restrictions for [EMAIL PROTECTED] or MPEG1 exceeded!" is not an error, just a notice. But it can slow things down if it's scrolling in a terminal window on X, so try avoiding this (small and not overlapping window, or "mplayer >/dev/null 2>/dev/null"). The biggest problem with HDTV is that human affordable monitors don't have enough resolution (1920 pixels at 0.25mm need a 48cm wide monitor, that would be a 4:3 monitor with a diagonal of 24 inches, which would mean a "commercial" size of 25 or 26 inches). Good luck. -- Roberto Ragusa r.ragusa at libero.it -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.
