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On 31/12/12 15:02, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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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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>>> |
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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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Some numbers ... 1440x1080 off air mpeg2 recording via mythtv served |
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over nfs. |
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OMXplayer on framebuffer using the licenced hw decoding uses 20% and |
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load is just under .5 |
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I need to test divx for some movies Ive previously transcoded but the |
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majority will be mpeg2 from myth. |
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Lessons learnt!: |
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Wasted "forever" compiling X and ratpoison only to find they are not |
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needed as omxplayer does fine on framebuffer |
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ext4 sucks (I dont know why I always start with the "recommended ext4" |
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as all the guides suggest, only to find it sucks and I lose data etc ... |
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in future start with reiserfs or maybe btrfs and forget the stone age. |
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Once I got it stable I synced portage and started compiling ffmpeg ... |
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ran out of inodes. So Ive now got portage over nfs but ext4 has gotta |
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go (yes, I know I can reinstall with more inodes, but why go with it |
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when there is better). Maybe someone can suggest something? |
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omxplayer needs some work as I have only minimal control from a keyboard |
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(basicly "q" for quit :) |
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BillK |