On 04/17/09 18:01, Paul Hartman wrote:
[snip]
No, a DVD video player can only play DVDs (and sometimes VCDs which
are even worse quality than DVD). If they could play HD then Blu-Ray
would have no reason to exist :) While some DVD players can output a
720p/1080i/1080p picture, it is simple scaling the lower-resolution
720 ? 576 (or whatever the DVD is) image to that size and applying
some filters to make it look better (in theory).
The only way to play the HD content on your TV is to hook a computer
up to it or get a media player capable of playing HD content. Or
figure out how to author and master Blu-Ray discs and get a Blu-Ray
player.
I don't think hooking up computer would help.
When I try to play HD MP4 (file that I recorded) in Xine it complains that CPU is not fast enough - it keeps complaining that amount of frames is too high
(60-fields/s) and that is on my: Quad CPU Q9550 @ 2.83GHz
Though, Xine only plays utilizing single CPU, it can not utilize all four cpu's
[snip
I think generally the answer is "You have to use windows to author
Blu-Ray movies"... because of the licensing etc. but I haven't ever
tried so I could be wrong.
I have to find a way to author Blu-Ray onto blu-ray disk but will take some time (if not years) as there aren't many blu-ray disk recorders for computers not
to mention Linux :-/ And by the time it happens my camera will be obsolete.
--
Joseph
