On Wed, 7 Sep 2005 20:16:54 +0100, Tony Houghton wrote > I tried the softdevice plugin today. It worked fairly well > considering it hasn't really been designed to output to a TV, which > has different sync requirements from a monitor. The A/V sync was > close enough and there were few enough frame jumps to make it quite watchable. > > However, softplay wouldn't work properly with the XVid files I tried, > only showing a few corrupt frames. I'm pretty sure it's an ffmpeg > problem because there were similar problems with some things I've > been doing myself with ffmpeg lately - I haven't got as far as > displaying the frames, but it does seem to keep stalling while > decoding and the Debian package version was complaining about "VOP > not coded" all the time. > Which version of xvidcore are you using? The problem I have with softplay is with a mpeg2 file that plays correctly with MPlayer using libmpeg2 but only gives a black screen with corrupted audio on softplay. Start and stop works ok. > Anyway, I tried upgrading from the Debian libavcodec to the latest > CVS, to make sure I don't annoy anyone if and when I report this > problem on the ffmpeg mailing list, and then softdevice wouldn't > work. It just shows a frozen picture with the initial OSD caption > you get when starting to play a channel. softplay wouldn't compile > either but I just needed to change . to -> in a few places. I had problems compiling softdevice against ffmpeg CVS. I had to add -lavutil in the Makefile. ( Just as info. ) > > So will there be a new softdevice and softplay compatible with the > latest ffmpeg soon? I'm using soft[device|play] and ffmpeg, all CVS of 20050905. No problem with freezing at all. Have you tried CVS of soft[device|play]? Not that much of help I'm afraid but maybe some hints ;) /Mel
