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Date:      Thu, 18 Oct 2001 22:37:40 -0700 (PDT)
From:      bruno schwander <bschwand@dvart.com>
To:        Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
Cc:        multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: fxtv and real-time mpeg capture (status)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0110182226190.93715-100000@mail.dvart.com>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20011019112942.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>

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yes, I know about the YUV stuff, but it seems nobody ever got the driver
to output YUV in any other res than 320x240. So said Randall (fxtv
author) ...

so I am playing with fxtv and ffmpeg, and while mpeg1video works great.
mpeg4, msmpeg4, mjpeg seems to stream/encode fine too, but then I can not
play the stream with anything !

I tried mplayer for example, and all I get is this:

MPlayer 0.50pre-1(C) 2000-2001 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS!)

Reading /home/bruno/.mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open
'/home/bruno/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Reading /usr/local/share/mplayer/codecs.conf: 18 audio & 39 video codecs
font: can't open file: /home/bruno/.mplayer/font/font.desc
font: can't open file: /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc
Playing test.mps
Detected MPEG-PS file format!
MPEG: FATAL: EOF while searching for sequence header

Exiting... (End of file)

mplayer -vc help shows (among others)

ffmjpeg    5  working   FFmpeg MJPEG decoder  [mjpeg]
ffi263     5  working   FFmpeg I263 decoder  [h263i]
ffh263     5  working   FFmpeg H263+ decoder  [h263]
ffdivx     5  working   FFmpeg DivX ;-) (MS MPEG-4 v3)  [msmpeg4]
ffodivx    5  working   FFmpeg OpenDivX  [mpeg4]
ffmpeg12   5  working   FFmpeg-1  [mpegvideo]

so, anybody can play mpeg4 streams generated by ffmpeg ?

problem is I do not know if the player has a problem or the encoder or
most probably the parameters are wrong. But ffmpeg output during encoding
does not show anything special.

bruno

On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Daniel O'Connor wrote:

> 
> On 18-Oct-2001 bruno schwander wrote:
> >  Fxtv is actually consuming twice as much cpu time as ffmpeg (probably
> >  because of the conversion to ppm, and because I do some inefficient
> >  things)
> 
> If you could get fxtv to dump YUV frames you would find it would be much more
> efficient..
> 
> The BT8x8 cards can generate such frames, and mpeg encoding starts off by
> generating YUV from RGB (and it is a major CPU killer - witness how much CPU
> the Xv extension saves you when playing a movie - the CPU no longer has to do
> YUV -> RGB)
> 
> And, uhh, no, I have no patches :)
> 
> >  I'll post a link when I get there. Probably some time next week.
> 
> This is good work :)
> 
> ---
> Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
> for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
> "The nice thing about standards is that there
> are so many of them to choose from."
>   -- Andrew Tanenbaum
> 



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