Some words about Siemens-DVB card support. by A'rpi ========================================== Requirements: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - Siemens DVB-S card or compatible (technotrend,galaxis,hauppage etc) see www.linuxtv.org for details and download latest driver there. - MPlayer-CVS, ffmpeg-libavcodec CVS are recommended for speed & pp. - Fast CPU - 1GHz+ recommended at least for software transcoding (divx->mpeg) How to enable? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1. Download ffmpeg-CVS and copy libavcodec to mplayer (see DOCS for details) 2. Compile mplayer: ./configure should detect it. If didn't, force with ./configure --enable-dvb If you have ost headers at non-standard path, set it with: --with-extraincdir=/ost/include make make install How to use? ~~~~~~~~~~~ To play standard mpeg 1/2 files: (hardware decoding) mplayer -ao mpegpes -vo mpegpes file.mpg|vob To play non-standard mpeg files: (software decoding) mplayer -ao mpegpes -vo mpegpes -vc mpeg12 file.mpg|vob To play divx files: mplayer -ao mpegpes -vo mpegpes file.avi|asf|mov... To play non-25fps movies, or with slow CPU, add option: -framedrop Image size: ~~~~~~~~~~~ DVB card allows only 2 vertical resolutions: 288 and 576. If your video height differs, you have to clip it or extend by adding black bands. It's done by mplayer, just specify image size using the -x and -y options. You must use either -y 288 or -y 576. To force pan&scan (16:9 at 4:3 TV), add options: -x 352 -y 288 If you have powerfull CPU, you can also scale image up, using the swscale filter. For example, to watch a 640x288 video fullscreen, use -vop scale=640:400 Note that you don't have to scale horizontally, the card will do it by hardware, but you have to scale vertically keeping the aspect ratio. Mailing list: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-dvb List's language is ENGLISH. Please avoid using german or other languages! Subscribe, and ask/discuss your problems here. I'll also post feature announces to this list. Future plans/TODO: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - display OSD and subtitles using DVB card's OSD feature - better (more fluent) playback of non-25fps movies - realtime transcoding between mpeg2 <-> mpeg4 (partial decompression) - better quality for lowres mpeg1