[MPlayer-dev-eng] Why no default modern disc playback support?, i.e. Blu-Ray/HD

Sat Feb 16 10:37:39 CET 2008

On Saturday, 16 February 2008 at 10:33, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, e-t172 wrote:
> 
> > codec available, is unable to decode Blu-ray video in realtime on my Core 2 
> > Duo E6600 (using latest Mplayer + CoreAVC patches on Windows, maybe it's 
> > better on Linux, I doubt it though).
> 
> However, I can decode it (the infamous "bird scene" from Planet Earth in 
> h.264 @L5.1) using Coreavc on a Q6600 on windows. It uses approximately 
> 60-70% on all 4 cores at peak according to windows task manager.
> 
> So if mplayer would support Coreavc in a way that most users would find 
> accessable (ie via official version and a howto including buying coreavc 
> from the manufacturer), a Q6600 or equivalent would enable anyone to play 
> most video streams on Linux including decrypted bluray and hddvd streams.

We prefer to spend our time improving open-source implementations instead
of supporting closed-source equivalents, even if they are faster at the time.

Regards,
R.

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