[MPlayer-users] How to instruct mplayer to enable postprocessing with mpegpes? (NOVIRUS)

D Richard Felker III dalias at aerifal.cx
Fri Dec 12 18:44:30 CET 2003


On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 06:05:27PM +0200, Ari Huttunen wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> D Richard Felker III wrote:
> >[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> >On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 10:49:17AM +0200, Ari Huttunen wrote:
> >>
> >>The command line used to play the AVIs is like the following:
> >>
> >>/usr/local/bin/mplayer -vo mpegpes -ao mpegpes -afm 9 -vop
> >>lavc=5000:25.000,(*),expand=720:576:-1:-1:1,scale=720:576 -cache 4096 
> >>-slave
> >>-nolirc -subpos 80 -sub-bg-color 0 -sub-bg-alpha 0 -quiet 
> >>/data/avi/hercule.avi
> >
> >
> >Of course you can't postprocess with _passthrough_ video!
> 
> I don't know what you mean by 'passthrough video', except that it must
> mean that it skips postprocessing. :) 'Passthrough' is mentioned once
> in the manual, with regard to AC3.

It means that MPlayer does not touch the video stream, but _passes it
through_ to the hardware decoder board. Thus it cannot modify it in
any way.

> >If you want postprocessing, you'll have to decode and reencode. Try:
> >
> >mplayer -vo mpegpes -ao mpegpes -vc mpeg12 -vf spp=6
> >
> >(or whatever postprocess you want to use). Keep in mind it will be
> >slow... BTW don't use both pp and spp; it will give bogus results. If
> >you want to use spp, forget about pp entirely because spp is much
> >better (but slower).
> 
> That didn't help. First I tried exactly what I think you suggested:
> 
> mplayer -vo mpegpes -ao mpegpes -vc mpeg12 -vf spp=6 whatever.avi

Errm I forgot:

mplayer -vo mpegpes -ao mpegpes -vc mpeg12 -vf spp=2,lavc whatever.avi

Try that.

Rich



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