Thread: mplayer jerkiness. My fault?
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Karel Jansens is offline Karel Jansens
2008-07-29 , 15:38
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Originally Posted by briand View Post
...also might be interesting to see the various parameters being used to create the video file to be used on the N800 during all your trials and tribulations. I have a script on my MythTV box that will transcode (using mencoder) shows that it has recorded from television, and I've never had any problem at all viewing any of the transcoded video on my N800.

Karel -- take a look at the mythtv wiki page: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php...800_Tablet_PDA ...an earlier version of that page is where I started when I built the script on my system. There's quite a bit more information there explaining the process....
PDE uses MAD for audio encoding (128 kbps) and I've selected Xvid as the video encoder (and keep the bitrate to about 500), other than that those settings seem quite similar to what I have PDE do. I'm reasonably certain that the variable audio bitrate is the main culprit, but I can't read "mencoders" well enough to figure out if you have variable audio or not.

MythTV, eh? Is it as good as bittorrent?

Only kidding. I don't have Myth set up, but I do use a "sneaker" version: a DVD recorder, DVD-RW disks and VirtualDub. More work, but it's also more fun.
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