OpenELEC Testbuilds for RaspberryPi Part 2
(2014-02-04, 14:11)popcornmix Wrote:
(2014-02-04, 13:28)doveman2 Wrote: I recall there was some chat a while back about letting the CPU try and decode unsupported formats. Is this enabled by default now or do I need to set something for that?

If you play (with dvdplayer) something unsupported (like divx3 or msmpeg4 or sorenson spark), then it will automatically use the software decoder.
If it is sd resolution, it will probably play fine.

It will also do this automatically with MPEG2 or VC1 if the hardware codec is not licensed. DVDs or Blu-Rays won't be much more than a slideshow.

Thanks. Is there anyway to make it automatically use dvdplayer for these unsupported formats, or does it do that by default?

The main thing I want to try is to see if my brother can use this to play his various unsupported formats, which are all SD (or lower). At the moment, I've set up Plex Server on his PC to transcode them and he uses the Plex addon on XBMC but it would obviously be nice if I could eliminate this and just play them natively from XBMC. I just think it will be a bit cumbersome for him to have to manually select dvdplayer for certain formats and so I'm hoping that I can set it up so that it uses the appropriate player for each format automatically. So also for DVD/Blu-Ray rips/isos, once I've established whether dvdplayer or omxplayer works best, it would be nice to set it so that whichever works best automatically gets used when playing DVDs, whilst omxplayer continues to be used for other supported formats (if that continues to be better than dvdplayer for those of course).


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RE: OpenELEC Testbuilds for RaspberryPi Part 2 - by doveman2 - 2014-02-04, 14:43
AW: RE: - by DieterLumpen - 2013-07-29, 20:50
include guires switch? - by hpbaxxter - 2013-08-01, 21:46
RE: dual audio?? - by pootler - 2013-08-03, 17:13
Help, watch 3D Film on Non 3D TV - by unix72 - 2013-08-09, 12:39
Remote Controllers - by tfft - 2013-08-14, 09:11
rbej repeatable crash - by RichG - 2013-08-19, 12:43
New Tester - by theneverstill - 2013-10-03, 17:16
[split] missing subtitle stream - by Jönke - 2014-01-08, 21:03
3D Support - by michbeck100 - 2014-01-11, 01:01
No sound on Gotham builds - by URBANsUNITED - 2014-01-13, 15:19
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