[Mplayer-matrox] Playing HDTV on a matrox G550 ?

[Peter Zelezny]

On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 20:17:26 +0100
Gregoire Favre <Gregoire.Favre at freesurf.ch> 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,

Good question. It seems xmga cannot scale frame size down, only up.
I'm not sure if this is a hardware or software(mga_vid.c) limitation.

-- 
Peter.