Media Center Software w/ H.264 support?
Can anyone recommend a good media center package with H.264 support that works well with SuSE? I don't care much about PVR functionality, I mostly want to be able to play back H.264 encoded movies on my TV. Thanks, Scott
On 25 Jul 2005, sstickeler@gmail.com wrote:
Can anyone recommend a good media center package with H.264 support that works well with SuSE? I don't care much about PVR functionality, I mostly want to be able to play back H.264 encoded movies on my TV.
mplayer can do that. Charles -- "If you want to travel around the world and be invited to speak at a lot of different places, just write a Unix operating system." (By Linus Torvalds)
Is there a GUI front end for mplayer that can be controlled via a remote control? Thanks, Scott On 7/25/05, Charles philip Chan <cpchan@sympatico.ca> wrote:
On 25 Jul 2005, sstickeler@gmail.com wrote:
Can anyone recommend a good media center package with H.264 support that works well with SuSE? I don't care much about PVR functionality, I mostly want to be able to play back H.264 encoded movies on my TV.
mplayer can do that.
Charles
-- "If you want to travel around the world and be invited to speak at a lot of different places, just write a Unix operating system." (By Linus Torvalds)
On 7/25/05, Scott Stickeler <sstickeler@gmail.com> wrote:
Is there a GUI front end for mplayer that can be controlled via a remote control?
Thanks, Scott
As far as I know, mplayer has lirc support. So as far as you have the hardware, it should work. Look at the lines mplayer produces when it is started. Somewhere in the beginning it says, that lirc is not present, so no remote control :) Otherwise, a frontends for mplayer are gmplayer, kmplayer, etc. You may take a look at them. Better, look at www.mplayer-hq.hu Sunny -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny)
On 25 Jul 2005, sloncho@gmail.com wrote: On 7/25/05, Scott Stickeler <sstickeler@gmail.com> wrote:
Otherwise, a frontends for mplayer are gmplayer, kmplayer, etc. You may take a look at them. Better, look at www.mplayer-hq.hu
gmplayer is actually part of mplayer with compiled with the "--enable-gui" option. Charles -- "I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated Development That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb. Thank you." (By Vance Petree, Virginia Power)
Thanks for the responses. I'll check out mplayer. One last question. How much horsepower do I need to do H.264 decoding for a standard DVD resolution video? I'm currently running SuSE on a PIII 1GHz. Will this be enough? -Scott On 7/25/05, Charles philip Chan <cpchan@sympatico.ca> wrote:
On 25 Jul 2005, sloncho@gmail.com wrote:
On 7/25/05, Scott Stickeler <sstickeler@gmail.com> wrote:
Otherwise, a frontends for mplayer are gmplayer, kmplayer, etc. You may take a look at them. Better, look at www.mplayer-hq.hu
gmplayer is actually part of mplayer with compiled with the "--enable-gui" option.
Charles
-- "I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated Development That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb. Thank you." (By Vance Petree, Virginia Power)
On 25 Jul 2005, sstickeler@gmail.com wrote:
One last question. How much horsepower do I need to do H.264 decoding for a standard DVD resolution video? I'm currently running SuSE on a PIII 1GHz. Will this be enough?
That should be enough. If your video card supports it, you should either use xv or xvidx video output. If things does get jerky (I doubt it will), you can configure mplayer to drop frames. Please read the docs. Charles -- "It's God. No, not Richard Stallman, or Linus Torvalds, but God." (By Matt Welsh)
Thanks! On 7/25/05, Charles philip Chan <cpchan@sympatico.ca> wrote:
On 25 Jul 2005, sstickeler@gmail.com wrote:
One last question. How much horsepower do I need to do H.264 decoding for a standard DVD resolution video? I'm currently running SuSE on a PIII 1GHz. Will this be enough?
That should be enough. If your video card supports it, you should either use xv or xvidx video output. If things does get jerky (I doubt it will), you can configure mplayer to drop frames. Please read the docs.
Charles
-- "It's God. No, not Richard Stallman, or Linus Torvalds, but God." (By Matt Welsh)
On 25 Jul 2005, sstickeler@gmail.com wrote:
Is there a GUI front end for mplayer that can be controlled via a remote control?
mplayer can do that when compiled with the "--enable-gui" option. You can test if your version have the gui compiled in by starting mplayer with the gmplayer command. If mplayer is compiled on a machine with the "LIRC" package installed, remote control support will be compiled in automatically. Charles -- "The IETF motto is 'rough consensus and running code'" -- Scott Bradner (Open Sources, 1999 O'Reilly and Associates)
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