Thursday, April 09, 2009

HD Video On Linux

Woo. Hoo.

I can now play my ripped HD-DVDs on my Linux box. h264 ones anyways. VC-1 is still a bit of a problem, but I should be able to transcode those to h264.

Per Phoronix: I need to use the vdpau codec and video output options to get hardware accelerated HD-h264 playback at full speed.

mplayer -cache 16384 -vc ffh264vdpau -vo vdpau trailer-autobot.mkv
The cache option is because the movie resides on a samba/cifs share.

Now runs perfectly. "Who knew?"