> > I'm hoping to get *away* from ffmpeg, and use something that actually works > > instead. grump. > > Huh... It's worked great over here.
There are at least two separate problems resulting in segmentation faults. And at least one resulting in floating point exceptions. And that's just in the mpeg decoder. It doesn't get interlace right. It doesn't understand its own output. I finally gave up on the developers. > > Looks like they are making some good progress. The MediaMVP output is > > SD only, not good for long term. It could be a nice short-to-medium term > > solution while we wait for prices of HD displays to come down, except I > > haven't seen anything about HD, so I assume it doesn't have enough power > > to input HD and scale it down to SD for output. A lot of the OTA shows > > are HD. > > Ummm... Yeah. HD->SD conversion is even more intensive than HD > decoding (think decoding plus resizing). That is, unless someone's > snuck in an ingenious algorithmic trick that can be used to pluck an > SD stream out of an HD one... which I suppose is quite possible (I > certainly wouldn't know). I read somewhere about some encoding that was designed to allow this. There was some problem with it, probably large file size. > Back in the day... HD displays had nice interoperable inputs like DVI > and 15 pin VGA. Those were nice - hook a regular computer directly up > to the display, select the correct resolution, you've got yourself a > programmable TV. ??? Might need a DVI to HDMI adapter, but I haven't heard of any HD displays that can't be connected to a computer? The problem I've read about is the other way around. Blu-Ray, HD-DVD, cable-tv boxes that refuse to output HD unless the display has HDCP. And sometimes still don't work due to bugs. > But apparently we're all pirates and can't be > trusted with devices that actually talk to each other. A pirate commits armed robbery on the high seas. Copyright infringement is wrong, assuming one can figure out what is and is not "fair use", but is hardly comparable to armed robbery. _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
