[MPlayer-users] Question about HD Content Streams!

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 10:22:37PM -0800, tangerina at airpost.net wrote:
> I was most fascinated by the recent posts about HD Content & MPlayer!
> 
> How would I please go about setting up the best possible out-come, given
> these facts:
> 
> 1] Bandwidth is generally not an issue
> 2] Content can be authored into any end format
> 
> AVI? MPEG?  What is best source for streaming 1080 quality, and further,
> it would be most helpful to play with a MPLAYER console command
> line/settings for this sort of endeavor... If someone has best
> suggestion where to start.
> 
> I assume AVI is it, but maybe I am missing something or there is a
> better efficient manner.
> 

AVI is not good for streaming because AVI stores the indices in the end
of the file! Because of the index issue AVI is not used for streaming
usually.

-- Pasi