[MPlayer-users] BBC H264 transmissions

Alexander Noe' alexander.noe at s2001.tu-chemnitz.de
Mon Jun 5 22:16:02 CEST 2006


Koef schrieb:

> On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 03:26:21PM +0200, Sebastian Kr?mer wrote:
> 
> 
>>>If I have the time, I'll also try to add support in FFmpeg to decode
>>>the interlaced content produced by x264 with my patches.
> 
> 
> "h264: MBAFF interlaced decoding" svn commit by lorenm a week ago. Thank
> you! I now have the BBC H264 clip playing, although it rather is a slideshow
> on my a64 3000+. The windows folk keep insisting that a dualcore CPU is
> required for this kind of video material. 

There are 2 (important) decoders on Windows for h264: ffdshow and CoreAVC.

With CoreAVC, something like a P4/3GHz HT is enough to play 
H264 at 1920x1080, but with ffdshow, the same CPU is barely enough for 
720x576.

Most "windows folk" only knows ffdshow...


Alex


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