lynx.abraxas@freenet.de wrote:
Hallo!
I now have an DVB-T USB stick working and went through the mplayer documentation for DVB. I find this section of the docs very confusing and out dated. Here some suggestions:
1) What is ment by dvb output? Can ff-dvb-card (full featured dvb cards) be use with mpegpes for hardware encoding??? Or does it mean one can use ff-dvb- cards to decode any mpeg-stream by the hardware even if it is not DVB? If that's ment the term dvb output is very confusing.
DEcoding
I'd suggest something like: "Use full featured dvb cards to do hardware decoding on mpeg2-streams other than dvb, eg. dvd vob-files"
2) The hardware decoding example differs from the first software decoding line only in the file name. Does the file extension make the difference?
no
3) Is mpegpes only ment for ff-dvb-cards?
yes
If so, it should be mentioned as now a days budget cards get more and more common.
4) In connection with mpegpes there is also mpeg-4 mentioned. Is that for chips which can do mpeg-4 hardware decoding?
none of them is supported; maybe there's an example to transcode from dvb input to mpeg4
5) It could be said in the dvb input part that an alang-option set in any configfile can lead to no sound if the language is not in the stream.
right
6) Last there is "realtime transcoding between MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 (partial decompression)" mentioned. It seems this is outdated. In my researches I found out that in 2002 it had been dropped off the ToDo-list. I couldn't find anything newer to that concerning mplayer/mencoder. Is it possible now?
it's been possible since dvb:// and demux_ts were added to mplayer
If so, how? As far as I can understand I found something about it at the TU Braunschweig. (mpeg-4 transcoding http://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/users/brandt/ ) Can that be use for mplayer?
Finally: If I use the keys 'h' or 'k' to change the channel when watching dvb- t mplayer changes it but then does not take any further input from the keyboard.
??
Ctrl-C works though. Same happens when I use the menu with dvbsel to change the channel. What can I do about it?
it works here
MPlayer rules!
Thanks Lynx