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@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > 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 > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html