Re: Better picture for mplayer-dvb

Sebastian Kemper wrote:
> Hello Nico,
> 
> can you wait until I tested some more, please?
> 
> I googled for technotrend dvb card and bitrate and I found some specs of 
> the technotrend mvp. It's not a dvb card, but it's the same company and 
> includes a mpeg decoder. It says the decoder can do mpeg1+2 at a max 
> rate of 10Mbit/s. I've set mplayer.sh.conf to use lavc=9800 now. I will 
> try this for some time now. If a movies stutters with this, there should 
> be a problem with cpu power and not the dvb. I'll test it. If I come 
> around a scene that skips I will write the mplayer output to disk and 
> try that, so the CPU hasn't to choke on transcoding it.

Why bothering with that? I already did it and in my experience you get
bitrates way above 10Mbit/s with lavc=9000, so forget it. Only with 5000
you get bitrates that don't go above 10Mbit/s.

Cheers,
Juri