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ajb · 06-05-06, 07:01 AM

I’ve been using TCPMP on my x50v for a while now and I’m extremely happy with it. I was especially impressed that it was playing 960x540 xvid files almost without any glitch.

My point is however that we’ve come to a point where storage is so cheap that you can buy a 4GB or 8GB card at a reasonable cost and that we could dispense with the whole encoding process at least on occasion and just play MPEG2 straight.

I’m aware of the license implications but that hasn’t really stopped development before. I’d also happily pay for my license - Corecodec has started charging for CoreAVC on the desktop so they’re no stranger to selling software anymore.

Ideally I’d like to just rip my DVDs or transfer my recorded TV shows without any encoding to such a large card and just play the MPEG2 straight without any conversion. The maximum DVD data rate of 9MBit/s shouldn’t present a problem to the hardware. I’ve tried it once on a DVD and got an unusable 4-5 fps due to no hardware acceleration on ffmpeg. According to Intel the 2700G processor supports MPEG2 acceleration and in any case MPEG2 is less processor intensive than MPEG4. There were some announcements from Nero but that seems to have gone quiet again.

Have I missed something here or is there really nobody who’d like to do the same thing?

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ajb Aximsite Prospect Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 5 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Play MPEG2 files directly I’ve been using TCPMP on my x50v for a while now and I’m extremely happy with it. I was especially impressed that it was playing 960x540 xvid files almost without any glitch. My point is however that we’ve come to a point where storage is so cheap that you can buy a 4GB or 8GB card at a reasonable cost and that we could dispense with the whole encoding process at least on occasion and just play MPEG2 straight. I’m aware of the license implications but that hasn’t really stopped development before. I’d also happily pay for my license - Corecodec has started charging for CoreAVC on the desktop so they’re no stranger to selling software anymore. Ideally I’d like to just rip my DVDs or transfer my recorded TV shows without any encoding to such a large card and just play the MPEG2 straight without any conversion. The maximum DVD data rate of 9MBit/s shouldn’t present a problem to the hardware. I’ve tried it once on a DVD and got an unusable 4-5 fps due to no hardware acceleration on ffmpeg. According to Intel the 2700G processor supports MPEG2 acceleration and in any case MPEG2 is less processor intensive than MPEG4. There were some announcements from Nero but that seems to have gone quiet again. Have I missed something here or is there really nobody who’d like to do the same thing?