Francois:
Sorry for the slow response. I talked with some people at Fluendo
and they just provided the following information to me today.
* Fullscreen support
Do you know what it is doing there? Just a linear interpolation, or is
it upscaling? Under windows, players like Arcsoft use CUDA to upscale.
Of course CUDA is not available under solaris. I've asked around about
this feature and I've heard nothing, so that tells me it's not on the
radar screen. However, if it has some decent upscaling in software, it
can still be worth it, for those with fast processors. When using a
computer as a DVD player that has some importance, because even if you
have a Reon HQV in your TV, you are driving it at native resolution,
so the chip sits idle, and all the upscaling has to be done in the PC.
Scaling, the video is upscaled using hardware scaler (XVideo extension)
* Dolby Digital pass-through
Does pass-through work in OpenSolaris, it is really bitstreaming DD
and DTS? If it is a true pass-through, it should even work with dolby
digital plus, yes?
There's no support for Dolby Passthru on OpenSolaris, when this is added
we will support it.
[Note: he means that there is currently no support is OSS]
* Dolby Digital 5.1 output
Does it mean it can decode DD and send it PCM 5.1 out, or that it can
output 5.1 over the analog out or something else?
5.1 output. If this is supported by the sound infrastructure, our player
supports it too.
* Subtitle support
Can you set where the subtitle shows?
Subtitles are supported, rendered on the video directly.
* Multiregion, works in all regions
Is that true? I thought that was enforced by the DVD reader itself
along with the driver? Years ago I set up an HTPC using solaris,
mplayer and some custom front end I wrote. The dvd was brand new and I
was having issues until I took the dvd reader, put it in a windows
machine, use powerdvd (or something like that) and set the region
code, and back into my Solaris HTPC. Then it worked, but only for DVDs
with that region code.
DVD region feature is respecting the drive region and let you change the
drive's region 5 times as enforced by the specs.
* Multiple video deinterlacing algorithms
Is this automatic or you have to specify film, tv, inverse telecine
etc? How does it handle PAL, does it pitch down audio?
There are mutiple deinterlacing algorithms implemented each with
different CPU cost. By default it will take the one that works on your
machine, you can force a specific algorithm.
On your blog you mention no spdif. I'm assuming this is on your
specific setup, because OSS does support it and I've used mplayer with
that (with -ao to specify the spdif device and -channel 6). Or is
there no way to specify the audio output device in the fluendo dvd
player?
SPDIF support. I assume here he is talking about raw audio as we were
told that SPDIF of AC3 does not work. SPDIF of raw audio will only work
for stereo.
What about keyboard shortcuts, in order to use either a remote or a
multimedia wireless keyboard (with stop, play/pause, forward/back etc
buttons)? Finally, more important than anything else, can you specify
aspect ratio and zoom level?
Not much keyboard shortcuts (C for controls, M for menus, SPACE for
play/ Pause, F for fullscreen) but an extensive DBUS API
You can force aspect ratio. No zoom cropping yet.
Brian
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