[MPlayer-dvb] Playing HDTV on a matrox G550 ?

[Nico Sabbi]

Gregoire Favre wrote:

>Hello,
>
>there is a plugin for vdr, vdr-xine that use xine to play HDTV material.
>With my Matrox G550 I can't play HDTV mpeg2 files (1920x1080) without
>reducing to 50% under xine (I have to use xshm because it seems xv has a
>limit to 1024x1024 with my Matrox...). I need to add #demux:mpeg_pes to
>xine to play it, but I haven't found the equivalent in mplayer ?
>
>mplayer has something really great: xmga, could that help to play such
>large file without changing my gfx card ?
>
>Is my mplayer version too old (I use mplayer-1.0_pre5-r4 in
>gentoo-amd64) ?
>
>Thank you very much,
>  
>

not exactly the best solution, but you can try -vc ffmpeg12 -lavdopts 
lowres=1

this makes libavcodec decode directly to half resolution in both axes, 
without
need to resize, but with a lower quality.

Hope it helps,
    Nico