[MPlayer-users] Garbled/distorted video withMPEG-2 transportstreamplayback (DVB)

[RC]

On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 11:16:14 +0300
Kenneth Falck <kennu at swelcom.fi> wrote:

>  could the official mplayer be changed so that  
> this is the default when playing back MPEG-2 transport streams (with  
> MPEG-2 video content)? I.e. so that it works properly by  
> autodetection, without additional configuration by the user.

It could be, but it won't be.

libmpeg is buggy and hacky, but it's about 10% faster than ffmpeg, so
most of the devs want libmpeg as the default.