# HG changeset patch
# User nicodvb
# Date 1171191789 0
# Node ID 36165d7a44b377b819d244230ee451acf61cccba
# Parent c4fbdc3daed9197502e33ad120d02c0393efa60c
some clarification about dvb-out playback
diff -r c4fbdc3daed9 -r 36165d7a44b3 DOCS/xml/en/video.xml
--- a/DOCS/xml/en/video.xml Sat Feb 10 20:33:27 2007 +0000
+++ b/DOCS/xml/en/video.xml Sun Feb 11 11:03:09 2007 +0000
@@ -1732,7 +1732,7 @@
USAGE
-Hardware decoding (playing standard MPEG-1/2 files) can be done with this
+Hardware decoding of streams containing MPEG-1/2 video and/or MPEG audio can be done with this
command:
mplayer -ao mpegpes -vo mpegpes file.mpg|vob
@@ -1741,8 +1741,9 @@
-Software decoding or transcoding different formats to MPEG-1 can be achieved
-using a command like this:
+Decoding of any other type of video stream requires transcoding to MPEG-1, thus it's slow
+and may not be worth the trouble, especially if your computer is slow.
+It can be achieved using a command like this:
mplayer -ao mpegpes -vo mpegpes yourfile.ext
mplayer -ao mpegpes -vo mpegpes -vf expand yourfile.ext