Re: Better picture for mplayer-dvb

> I don't know whether it's a hardware limitation or a limitation in
> either the dvb driver or mplayer itself, but if I generate mpeg1 files
> from two of my problematic AVIs with
> 'mplayer -vo mpegpes:test.mpg -vop lavc,expand=(...),scale=(...) video.avi'
> and I replay those mpeg files with 'mplayer -vo mpegpes test.mpg' I get
> stuttering scenes at exactly the same place where it would stutter when
> playing the avis directly.
> If I play those files on my slower Laptop directly via
> 'mplayer test.mpg' those scenes are smooth as they should be. So the
> mpegs itself are ok, but replaying them via the DVB card seems to be
> probematic. What I observed is that at those sceens which stutter, the
> bitrate goes above 2MByte/s  - on my laptop I can see up to 3.4 MByte/s
> whereas on the DVB-machine the bitrate seems to hit a barrier at around
> 2MByte/s (and yes, this machine is fast enough: P4 2.4GHz, hdparm -t:
> 37MB/s).
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Cheers,
> Juri

Interesting!

That's exactly my own experience. Allthough I didn't actually look at 
the bitrates.

Sebastian