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On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 08:35:36 +0800 |
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William Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au> wrote: |
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> > If your intent is to learn something by all means proceed (you will |
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> > learn, and lots of it :-). But if you are looking for something to |
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> > use that works, it's probably only fair you know up front the odds |
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> > of success are not good. |
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> Thanks for the conclusions ... I agree in part at least that its |
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> underpowered (already mildly overclocking it and using distcc) but its |
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> both a learning experience and hopefully will be useful. |
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> It will play the files I am interested in (I tested using xbmc), |
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> however I am not as interested in gaudy eye candy (which seems to be |
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> what xbmc is all about) as in something easy to use - and myth |
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> integration was woeful on the version I tried. |
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> I have (after an overnight compile) a working X on framebuffer (tested |
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> at 720p) using ratpoison - omxplayer is now compiling. |
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> I am thinking of a simple ncurses or perltk interface to spawn |
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> omxplayer with a seleced file - need nothing more complex than that. |
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> I already have a "myth job" transcoding off-air recordings to an ipad |
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> friendly 720p with proper descriptive file names so I am aiming to |
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> start out with a similar, quite basic setup. |
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> I have overcome the versioning mismatch in the various components and |
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> the licence is enabled according to a test. Did you use the licenced |
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> mpeg2 playback? |
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Hi Bill, |
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If it does what you need, then by all means fire away. If nothing else, |
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the learning experience will be worth it. |
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I don't have a purchased mpeg-2 license, so can't comment on that. All |
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my content is transcoded to h.264 in mp4 containers, or good old .avi |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |