[MPlayer-users] BBC HD

[Nico Sabbi]

Il Saturday 15 December 2007 01:52:48 Phil Rhodes ha scritto:

> I have no idea what if any relevance mplayer has to this, other
> than that it is attractive because it has a very fast h.264
> decoder, and it's capable of dumping raw streams to disk to allow
> you to losslessly record the off air signal. I don't know if - and
> I doubt, from reading around the subject - that it is capable of
> addressing DVB-S or DVB-S2 cards with HD content in the way we
> want. Presumably this will happen at some point although this sort
> of thing tends to take several years to become really usable on
> opensource projects.
>
> So that's where we are. Any more info welcome.

mplayer can already play plain dvb:// streams.
The only reason why I haven't added support for dvb-s2
is that currently the tuning API is an experimental branch
whose destiny is very uncertain, thus i don't want to waste time
and code with it