Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] Fluendo DVD player for OpenSolaris to release this week
Francois: Sorry for the slow response. I talked with some people at Fluendo and they just provided the following information to me today. * 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. Scaling, the video is upscaled using hardware scaler (XVideo extension) * 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? There's no support for Dolby Passthru on OpenSolaris, when this is added we will support it. [Note: he means that there is currently no support is OSS] * 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? 5.1 output. If this is supported by the sound infrastructure, our player supports it too. * Subtitle support Can you set where the subtitle shows? Subtitles are supported, rendered on the video directly. * 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. DVD region feature is respecting the drive region and let you change the drive's region 5 times as enforced by the specs. * 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? There are mutiple deinterlacing algorithms implemented each with different CPU cost. By default it will take the one that works on your machine, you can force a specific algorithm. 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? SPDIF support. I assume here he is talking about raw audio as we were told that SPDIF of AC3 does not work. SPDIF of raw audio will only work for stereo. 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? Not much keyboard shortcuts (C for controls, M for menus, SPACE for play/ Pause, F for fullscreen) but an extensive DBUS API You can force aspect ratio. No zoom cropping yet. Brian ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] Fluendo DVD player for OpenSolaris to release this week
Francois Dion wrote: 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. VDPAU provides the necessary hooks for doing accelerated scaling. I was in contact with Fluendo earlier this year about it. 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. That would be incorrect. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] Fluendo DVD player for OpenSolaris to release this week
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 12:41 AM, Che Kristo 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 ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] Fluendo DVD player for OpenSolaris to release this week
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 wrote: > On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 12:41 AM, Che Kristo 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 > ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] Fluendo DVD player for OpenSolaris to release this week
Thats good news! Now I only have to wait until the scsi bugs are fixed before I can probably use it. (http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6893171) Hopefully this will be soon. Ivar Che Kristo 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 ___ indiana-discuss mailing list indiana-disc...@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
