Re: [vdr] Advice for best hardware and plugins to play MKV files and receive 4K channels

2018-10-30 Thread VDR User 
> >xineliboutput and VDPAU so I assume what you actually mean by mkv is
> >being able to play back HD or greater content using VDPAU for decoding
> >and xineliboutput to get the decoded frames to your tv.
> Correct, my 4K mkv files are using H.265 codecs, HD files are using H.264.

Since dumping Nvidia I haven't kept up with what their current cards
capabilities are so I can't advise on an Nvidia card that does
HEVC/h265. My NUC handles it great though! ;)

> I didn't understand which player/plugin you advise in VDR.
> - MPlayer was very good but no longer works...
> - Media Player in Xineliboutput is convenient but little buggy under VDPAU...

I originally used mplayer, then mplayer2, and lastly mpv player. The
vdr-mplayer plugin + mpv player has worked great. All you have to do
to switch from mpv is just change your mplayer.sh (or whatever you
call your player script) from using the mplayer bin to mpv bin.

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Re: [vdr] Advice for best hardware and plugins to play MKV files and receive 4K channels

2018-10-30 Thread Karim AFIFI 

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De : vdr [mailto:vdr-boun...@linuxtv.org] De la part de VDR User
Envoyé : mardi 30 octobre 2018 01:38
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Objet : Re: [vdr] Advice for best hardware and plugins to play MKV files and 
receive 4K channels

> I plan to upgrade my VDR box, with these two important features :
> - reading mkv files => I am using xineliboutput and vdpau.

>xineliboutput and VDPAU so I assume what you actually mean by mkv is
>being able to play back HD or greater content using VDPAU for decoding
>and xineliboutput to get the decoded frames to your tv. 
Correct, my 4K mkv files are using H.265 codecs, HD files are using H.264.

>>VDPAU is EOL.
Ok, I didn't know it.

>>Nvidia currently has NVDEC but I can't speak to how well it's
>> supported since I dumped VDPAU for VAAPI a while back.
I just found informations here : 
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Hardware_video_acceleration


> Could you share best hardware cpu/video/card,motherboard/..., & best 
> plugin/driver/... you advice at the moment?

>When I switched from VDPAU to VAAPI I retired my old hardware and just
>spent about $120 on an Intel NUC, and couldn't be happier. I'll never
>bother with video cards again for htpc/media playing boxes. And also
>non-usb tuners. Low power/low space is my theme now so my days of
>building pc's for this purpose are over. You might want to look at
>other options unless you actually want a pc tower.
I am not looking for a very small pc case, because I have 3 x dvb PCIE cards 
and a Digium card (for Asterisk). I will probably keep my medium Silverstone 
aluminium case, and I will choose an ATX or mini ITX motherboard, depending 
power and efficiency.

I didn't understand which player/plugin you advise in VDR. 
- MPlayer was very good but no longer works...
- Media Player in Xineliboutput is convenient but little buggy under VDPAU...




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