2015-03-31, 09:40
Can you please elaborate on this "still frames" issue? What is it?
Regarding the rest, thanks a lot for the info! I didn't realize (till now) that it was only my AMD-based equipment that had the limitation of not being able to deal with VC-1/main profile properly. And I'm still a bit confused about that, because of what might possibly be AMD official misinformation, specifically here:
http://developer.amd.com/community/blog/...coder-uvd/
I quote:
"VC1 – Up to Advanced profile up to level L3"
The phrase "up to" doesn't usually mean "but nothing lower than this".
Anyway, sigh... based on the info you just provided, guess that it really is time now for me to ditch my AMD HTPC and grab myself a RPi2 instead.
Thank you. I wasn't sure that I wanted to spend the cash (for an RPi2)... even though it isn't much... but now I am sure.
Still wondering about MPEG2 issue though. If there is something specific... which is goofy and which breaks HW decoding... within the MPEG2 files that one finds on many, most or all DVDs... then perhaps someone (e.g. within the ffmpeg or handbrake communities) could write some sort of munger tool that will just fix the files without doing full blown (and detail sacraficing) transcoding (e.g. to MPEG4/AVC).
Regarding the rest, thanks a lot for the info! I didn't realize (till now) that it was only my AMD-based equipment that had the limitation of not being able to deal with VC-1/main profile properly. And I'm still a bit confused about that, because of what might possibly be AMD official misinformation, specifically here:
http://developer.amd.com/community/blog/...coder-uvd/
I quote:
"VC1 – Up to Advanced profile up to level L3"
The phrase "up to" doesn't usually mean "but nothing lower than this".
Anyway, sigh... based on the info you just provided, guess that it really is time now for me to ditch my AMD HTPC and grab myself a RPi2 instead.
Thank you. I wasn't sure that I wanted to spend the cash (for an RPi2)... even though it isn't much... but now I am sure.
Still wondering about MPEG2 issue though. If there is something specific... which is goofy and which breaks HW decoding... within the MPEG2 files that one finds on many, most or all DVDs... then perhaps someone (e.g. within the ffmpeg or handbrake communities) could write some sort of munger tool that will just fix the files without doing full blown (and detail sacraficing) transcoding (e.g. to MPEG4/AVC).