Viewing HD?

Viewing HD?

[Mikhail Ramendik]

Hello,

I have an AverMedia Pro A700 DVB-S card, working well with Kaffeine;
the dish is tuned to Astra 28.2E (in Ireland).

However, I am unable to view HD. I tried BBC HD and nothing is shown;
the terminal output mentions "illegal aspect ratio".

Instant recording worked. In mplayer, the result was viewed very
jerkily, with many messages saying "PAFF + spatial direct mode is not
implemented"; the codec was ffmpeg h.264. CPU load was maxed out
(Pentium 3 GHz).

Is there any way to view HD - live or recorded? Or if the CPU is not
powerful enough, which will be? And, as a CPU workaround, is there a
way to recode in non-realtime, without losing data? (With the "not
implemented" messages, I am wary of using mencoder).

-- 
Yours, Mikhail Ramendik

Re: Viewing HD?

[Anssi Hannula]

Mikhail Ramendik wrote:
> Hello,

Hi!

[...]
> Instant recording worked. In mplayer, the result was viewed very
> jerkily, with many messages saying "PAFF + spatial direct mode is not
> implemented"; the codec was ffmpeg h.264. CPU load was maxed out
> (Pentium 3 GHz).

AFAIK this support was added quite some time ago; you need to upgrade
your mplayer.

-- 
Anssi Hannula

Re: Viewing HD?

[HoP]

Seems your installed ffmpeg libavcodec library
has no support for PAFF+spatial. Check if update
of such library can help.

Good starting point for PAFF understanging:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=927675

and mplayer with PAFF:
http://forum.doom9.org/archive/index.php/t-130797.html

/Honza

PS: I'm not sure if this ML is correct target for your question
as it is main development ML for linux-media (v4l2+dvb)
subsystem inside kernel. Your question is rather application specific.

2009/10/3 Mikhail Ramendik <mr@ramendik.ru>:
> Hello,
>
> I have an AverMedia Pro A700 DVB-S card, working well with Kaffeine;
> the dish is tuned to Astra 28.2E (in Ireland).
>
> However, I am unable to view HD. I tried BBC HD and nothing is shown;
> the terminal output mentions "illegal aspect ratio".
>
> Instant recording worked. In mplayer, the result was viewed very
> jerkily, with many messages saying "PAFF + spatial direct mode is not
> implemented"; the codec was ffmpeg h.264. CPU load was maxed out
> (Pentium 3 GHz).
>
> Is there any way to view HD - live or recorded? Or if the CPU is not
> powerful enough, which will be? And, as a CPU workaround, is there a
> way to recode in non-realtime, without losing data? (With the "not
> implemented" messages, I am wary of using mencoder).
>
> --
> Yours, Mikhail Ramendik
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