Re: [xine-devel] HD-DVD and possible sponsorship?

[Diego B. <di...@bi...>]

On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 10:02:45PM +0200, Julian Scheel wrote:
> Am Montag 03 September 2007 20:54 schrieb Paul Huber:
> > I work on LinuxMCE, which uses Xine.  I understand MPlayer now supports
> > HD-DVD, but Xine doesn't.  I have someone anxious to get HD-DVD working
> > with Xine and they said they'd be open to offer some compensation if
> > somebody could make it work.
> >
> > Is anybody working on this at present?  Does anybody know how much work is
> > involved?
> 
> as far as I know mplayer supports to play EVO files of unscrambled HD-DVDs? - 
> Please correct me if I'm wrong and the support has come further?
> For HD-DVD playback are several things needed:
> 1. H264-decoder: ffmpeg has one, but it's far away from feature complete, 
> though some progress seems to happen atm - the alternative for now is to use 
> CoreAVC windows binary: http://coreavc-for-linux.googlecode.com/ - there's a 
> patch for xine which I made up

AFAIK it is feature-complete apart from PAFF.

> 2. VC1-decoder: again ffmpeg has one, but it's not very fast at least it 
> wasn't when I tested last time

Try again, it's faster than the binary on my machine.

Diego