On 9/16/07, Clemens Kirchgatterer <clemens@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Dick Streefland wrote: > > > "VDR User" <user.vdr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > | I think a better idea is to just install a codec that plays > > > | whatever format your camera videos are in and use the mplayer > > > | plugin. > > > > > > But I have a rather underpowered VDR machine with a full-featured > > > DVB-S card, so I really need to use the hardware MPEG decoder. > > > > Mplayer can play MPEG files using the hardware MPEG decoder without > > re-encoding. > > but it's NOT an mpeg file he wants to play! so we're back to where we > started from. ;-) Right, it's M-JPEG format. No conversion should be necessary to play his files, just installing the proper codec and using the mplayer plugin should be fine. There is FFmpeg MJPEG decoder. Here are some packages to explore: http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net/ avifile-mjpeg-plugin - MJPEG video plugin for libavifile cortado - streaming applet for Ogg formats luvcview - USB Video Class grabber motioneye - ppm/jpg snapshots or mjpeg compressed video on Vaio Laptops 3gpwiz - 3gp movie wizard libmjpegtools-dev - MJPEG video capture/editting/playback MPEG encoding libmjpegtools0 - MJPEG video capture/editting/playback MPEG encoding libmpeg4ip-0 - end-to-end system to explore streaming multimedia libmpeg4ip-dev - end-to-end system to explore streaming multimedia libmpeg4ip-doc - end-to-end system to explore streaming multimedia - documentation mjpegtools - MJPEG video capture/editting/playback MPEG encoding mpeg4ip-server - end-to-end system to explore streaming multimedia _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
