On 31/12/12 15:02, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 08:35:36 +0800 > William Kenworthy <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> If your intent is to learn something by all means proceed (you will >>> learn, and lots of it :-). But if you are looking for something to >>> use that works, it's probably only fair you know up front the odds >>> of success are not good. >>> ...
>> mpeg2 playback? > > Hi Bill, > > If it does what you need, then by all means fire away. If nothing else, > the learning experience will be worth it. > > I don't have a purchased mpeg-2 license, so can't comment on that. All > my content is transcoded to h.264 in mp4 containers, or good old .avi > Some numbers ... 1440x1080 off air mpeg2 recording via mythtv served over nfs. OMXplayer on framebuffer using the licenced hw decoding uses 20% and load is just under .5 I need to test divx for some movies Ive previously transcoded but the majority will be mpeg2 from myth. Lessons learnt!: Wasted "forever" compiling X and ratpoison only to find they are not needed as omxplayer does fine on framebuffer ext4 sucks (I dont know why I always start with the "recommended ext4" as all the guides suggest, only to find it sucks and I lose data etc ... in future start with reiserfs or maybe btrfs and forget the stone age. Once I got it stable I synced portage and started compiling ffmpeg ... ran out of inodes. So Ive now got portage over nfs but ext4 has gotta go (yes, I know I can reinstall with more inodes, but why go with it when there is better). Maybe someone can suggest something? omxplayer needs some work as I have only minimal control from a keyboard (basicly "q" for quit :) BillK
