Well it is finally time to test NVidia’s VDPAU support under Linux. Test Setup Dell Inspiron 1420 Laptop NVidia GeForce 8400M GS 128MB Video Intel Core 2 Duo T7500 @ 2.20GHz 3GB Ram Ubuntu 8.10 Nvidia 180.25 Video driver Compiz disabled CPU locked in performance mode of 2.2 GHz mplayer-vdpau-3402051 Hauppage HVR 900 digital tuner [...]
I’ve just posted a quick update to the article on DTV and Linux with some additional information on supported hardware, plus the section on DTT Debugging under Linux has also been expanded with feedback from the NZ MythTV Mailing list.
It certainly looks like they are planning on making DTT services here in NZ very interesting from a technical perspective. On Friday the TVNZ Multiplex refreshed with some major changes. Rather than using MP2 audio streams they switched to AAC audio. This means that they can use a much lower bitrate for around the same [...]
The Auckland DTT (Digital Terrestrial TV) Tests fired up over the weekend. The Waiatarua transmission is currently showing 14 active services, although some have duplicate video streams Linux users can either use the tool w_scan to perform a full UHF scan for potential DVB streams, or the following to perform a quick channel scan with [...]
Well I’ve now briefed the MPlayer team on the issues and uploaded one of the clips. I also tried a full up-to-date debug build of MPlayer which I ran under GDB to produce this output. Sadly this build still crashes in the same fashion as my earlier tests. A dig around on the FFMPEG mailing [...]
