Re: Better picture for mplayer-dvb

Juri Haberland wrote:

>Sebastian Kemper wrote:
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>>Nico Sabbi schrieb:
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>>>2 MB/s means 16 Mbit/s; this may be really too high for the card (the 
>>>previous figure of 5 Mb/s should not,
>>>because the card is supposed to play DVD content, which may get as high 
>>>as 9.8 Mb/s)
>>>but I'm just guessing: I don't have a FF card.
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>>Great input, Nico. Allthough you might have confused MB/s and Mbit/s? 
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>No, he didn't.
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>>If I understand correctly, wouldn't it be worth to try if things work 
>>better with a patched version of lavc that has a bitrate boundary at 
>>9.8MBit/s? What do you think? Who could we ask for such a patch? :) Can 
>>you do it yourself? :) I can't program anything except printf/scanf 
>>things yet :)
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>Actually, lavc=9000 should do the trick, but it still gives me a max.
>bitrate of 2.2 MBytes/s.
>Only if I use 5000 I get 1.2 MByte/s, which is 9.6 Mbit/s.
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>So something is wrong with the lavc parameter, because mplayer's
>man-page says:
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>>quality:
>>  1 - 31 fixed qscale
>>  32 -   fixed bitrate in kBits
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>So 9000 should give me 9Mbit/s, but I get up to 17.2Mbit/s...
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>Cheers,
>Juri
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maybe -vf lavc=3 will work without compromising quality