[mythtvnz] playback profiles filters

[Nick Rout]

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Brett <mythicalbeast at slingshot.co.nz> wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 11:26 +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Brett <mythicalbeast at slingshot.co.nz> wrote:
>> > On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 17:32 +1200, Geoff wrote:
>> >> >Is anyone using XBMC for playback ?
>> >>
>> >> YES - And after you have used XBMC - do you ever use the mythtv frontend
>> >> again.... No.
>> > Is this due to the GUI interface or the playback quality?
>> > Does it integrate well with the Myth BE ?
>> >
>> > It seems, from the forums at least, that XBMC is the playback benchmark
>> > with many software scaling options.
>> > It is hoped that the nVidia hq scaling (feature set C) will match this.
>> >
>> > Myth has an openGL playback filter option 'openglbicubic' scaler.
>> >
>> > Does anyone use this ?
>> >
>> > The OP was about the ability to switch playback methods by video format
>> > to allow easy use of the openGL scaling.
>>
>> And the answer was 'no', unless you can differentiate the codec based
>> on the frame size.
>>
>
> I know I posted the answer...
>
>
>> EG your xvid stuff is likely 576i/p or smaller, where your h264 stuff
>> is probably 720p or larger, so if that is universally so then you
>> could use the rules mythtv provides.
>
> Easier than that cos it is just DVD playback.
>>
>> You could do what you want by using external players, eg mplayer with
>> different -vo parameters based on extension, or based on codec by
>> using a wrapper script.
>>
> Yes could use XMBC, mplayer is worse or same as than Myth internal
> player.

worse at what?