Hi Francois, I don't have the answers to your questions unfortunately. I will chase this up with Fluendo and see if I can get some answers for you.
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 05:52, Francois Dion <francois.d...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 12:41 AM, Che Kristo <c...@opensolaris.org> wrote: > > Just a brief heads up that Fluendo will be releasing the DVD Player for > > OpenSolaris at *some stage this week*. You can see some screenshots at my > > blog: > > > http://myunix.org/2009/11/03/fluendo-dvd-player-for-opensolaris-arriving-very-very-soon/ > > > > Thanks to the guys at Fluendo for the hard work. > > > > Che Kristo > > I was looking through their web page and your blog, and I'm not too > clear on the sound support and the specs. Maybe you know a bit more? > I'll skip the obvious features, but these points, I was wondering > about? > > * Fullscreen support > > Do you know what it is doing there? Just a linear interpolation, or is > it upscaling? Under windows, players like Arcsoft use CUDA to upscale. > Of course CUDA is not available under solaris. I've asked around about > this feature and I've heard nothing, so that tells me it's not on the > radar screen. However, if it has some decent upscaling in software, it > can still be worth it, for those with fast processors. When using a > computer as a DVD player that has some importance, because even if you > have a Reon HQV in your TV, you are driving it at native resolution, > so the chip sits idle, and all the upscaling has to be done in the PC. > > * Dolby Digital pass-through > > Does pass-through work in OpenSolaris, it is really bitstreaming DD > and DTS? If it is a true pass-through, it should even work with dolby > digital plus, yes? > > * Dolby Digital 5.1 output > > Does it mean it can decode DD and send it PCM 5.1 out, or that it can > output 5.1 over the analog out or something else? > > * Subtitle support > > Can you set where the subtitle shows? > > * Multiregion, works in all regions > > Is that true? I thought that was enforced by the DVD reader itself > along with the driver? Years ago I set up an HTPC using solaris, > mplayer and some custom front end I wrote. The dvd was brand new and I > was having issues until I took the dvd reader, put it in a windows > machine, use powerdvd (or something like that) and set the region > code, and back into my Solaris HTPC. Then it worked, but only for DVDs > with that region code. > > * Multiple video deinterlacing algorithms > > Is this automatic or you have to specify film, tv, inverse telecine > etc? How does it handle PAL, does it pitch down audio? > > On your blog you mention no spdif. I'm assuming this is on your > specific setup, because OSS does support it and I've used mplayer with > that (with -ao to specify the spdif device and -channel 6). Or is > there no way to specify the audio output device in the fluendo dvd > player? > > What about keyboard shortcuts, in order to use either a remote or a > multimedia wireless keyboard (with stop, play/pause, forward/back etc > buttons)? Finally, more important than anything else, can you specify > aspect ratio and zoom level? > > Francois >
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