Mercurial > mplayer.hg
changeset 22183:36165d7a44b3
some clarification about dvb-out playback
| author | nicodvb |
|---|---|
| date | Sun, 11 Feb 2007 11:03:09 +0000 |
| parents | c4fbdc3daed9 |
| children | d9115ad11744 |
| files | DOCS/xml/en/video.xml |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- 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 @@ <formalpara><title>USAGE</title> <para> -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: <screen> mplayer -ao mpegpes -vo mpegpes <replaceable>file.mpg|vob</replaceable> @@ -1741,8 +1741,9 @@ </formalpara> <para> -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: <screen> mplayer -ao mpegpes -vo mpegpes <replaceable>yourfile.ext</replaceable> mplayer -ao mpegpes -vo mpegpes -vf expand <replaceable>yourfile.ext</replaceable>