Re: [GEM-dev] Re: [PD] GEM Linux and video codecs

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stupid question, but what about mplayer support instead of libMPEG2? mplayer is able to play back about every file format ...

hmm, you mean like mjpegtools ? letting mplayer write into a fifo and read that back ?

the only problem i see is, how one would control the mplayer.... (but i haven't looked closer)

well, mplayer does have some kind of command line interface ... (see slave.txt) ...

on the other hand, trying to write a jack-transport aware python script controlling mplayer i figured out that the synchronisation sucks ...

still, in the contrary of Gem, mplayer can play back dvd vob files, without recompiling with other libraries or crashing ...

cheers ... tim