[Mplayer-dvb] future plans

[Arpi]

Hi,

I've finished most of my commercial projects, so now i'm back to DVB card!
For the start, I've added support for 44khz and also 32 and 96 audio
samplerates, so movies using these rates are playable without samplerate
conversion!

Unfortunatelly the audio up/downsampler is somehow broken, I've reported it
to author and we're working on the fix.

For the near future, you can expect:
- switch from ffmpeg to mp1e. it's much faster mpeg1 encoder, should improve
  software playback (divx, etc)
- fix A-V sync issues, especially at seeking - it's even hard to reproduce
it here, so if you have a 100% method to reproduce such issue, describe!
(also upload sample file)
- solution for 25<->30 fps problem (PAL vs NTSC)
- software scaling (for really fullscreen divx)

Maybe:
- hardware OSD support, for DVD subtitles
- mpeg TS support

To Marcus or others at convergence:
- Could you please provide me some info about A-V syncronization by the card?
I've experienced a lot with PTS values, but it's a bit random, sometimes it
work sometimes it doesn't. It looks like it's ignored if exceeds a maximum
difference? Or is it just a buffering problem.
- Is there any chance to get current delay of video? It would be very
usefull to adjust A-V sync when playback via audio card.


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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