On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:22:37 -0800 tangerina at airpost.net wrote: > I was most fascinated by the recent posts about HD Content & MPlayer! > > How would I please go about setting up the best possible out-come, > given these facts: > > 1] Bandwidth is generally not an issue > 2] Content can be authored into any end format > > AVI? MPEG? What is best source for streaming 1080 quality, and > further, it would be most helpful to play with a MPLAYER console > command line/settings for this sort of endeavor... If someone has best > suggestion where to start. > > I assume AVI is it, but maybe I am missing something or there is a > better efficient manner. > definitely mpeg. avi is the evil. you can call it avil if you prefer ;) it doesn't make sense to me to embed an h264 stream into an avi file, nor code hd content in something like divx-or-the-like. and if you code into h264, so avi doesn't really fit in. about playing, it doesn't really matter, i think. i mean, when you have the right options, to me is a personale choice. i play almost ever by command line, so i can select specific profiles, but it depends on hardware too....
