[MPlayer-users] How to instruct mplayer to enable postprocessing with mpegpes? (NOVIRUS)

[Ari Huttunen]

>> I don't know what you mean by 'passthrough video', except that it must
>> mean that it skips postprocessing. :) 'Passthrough' is mentioned once
>> in the manual, with regard to AC3.
> 
> It means that MPlayer does not touch the video stream, but _passes it
> through_ to the hardware decoder board. Thus it cannot modify it in
> any way.

I do understand that MPlayer needs to eventually pass the video stream
to the DVB card. Still..

> 
>> >If you want postprocessing, you'll have to decode and reencode. Try:
>> >
>> >mplayer -vo mpegpes -ao mpegpes -vc mpeg12 -vf spp=6
>> >
>> >(or whatever postprocess you want to use). Keep in mind it will be
>> >slow... BTW don't use both pp and spp; it will give bogus results. If
>> >you want to use spp, forget about pp entirely because spp is much
>> >better (but slower).
>> 
>> That didn't help. First I tried exactly what I think you suggested:
>> 
>> mplayer -vo mpegpes -ao mpegpes -vc mpeg12 -vf spp=6 whatever.avi
> 
> Errm I forgot:
> 
> mplayer -vo mpegpes -ao mpegpes -vc mpeg12 -vf spp=2,lavc whatever.avi
> 
> Try that.

I did. Same result.

Ari