I'm curious re what's the deal with channels with H264 / 4.2.2 video?
I know I've read posts here about it being difficult to play, but I guess I've never run into one of those feeds, so I didn't pay much attention.
But I've been looking at the 4030 V 15000 transponder on SES2. Yesterday, I played it for a minute or so before moving on to other transponders, but today I tried watching it for longer periods of time, and noticed that after a minute or two it started to break up audio wise, and I think go into slightly slow motion on the video, even though there was not much CPU load, and no noticeable errors on the signal. After fighting with it for a while, I finally noticed that it was H264 / 4.2.2 .
It was giving me problems with both VLC and MPC-HC. The strange thing was that if I didn't play it full screen, then I didn't seem to get the breakup or slowdown, which didn't make any sense considering that the player was using very little CPU time.
Finally, I tried PotPlayer, and it worked just fine. Been watching it for quite a while now with no problems at all.
Is this just an issue with the CODECs or something? And if so, it seems like it must be that the codecs have bugs, not that it's a processing overload.
Anyway, I'm curious what the current situation is. It seems like a year ago people were saying that they couldn't play this format, but now, it seems like it's possible with some players, or by not going full screen.
Or is my memory bad, and this was never an issue?
In any event, I really like the deep colors I see in this feed.
EDIT: SmartDVB plays the channel too, with only a occasional spasms . Spasms starting to get more numerous.
I know I've read posts here about it being difficult to play, but I guess I've never run into one of those feeds, so I didn't pay much attention.
But I've been looking at the 4030 V 15000 transponder on SES2. Yesterday, I played it for a minute or so before moving on to other transponders, but today I tried watching it for longer periods of time, and noticed that after a minute or two it started to break up audio wise, and I think go into slightly slow motion on the video, even though there was not much CPU load, and no noticeable errors on the signal. After fighting with it for a while, I finally noticed that it was H264 / 4.2.2 .
It was giving me problems with both VLC and MPC-HC. The strange thing was that if I didn't play it full screen, then I didn't seem to get the breakup or slowdown, which didn't make any sense considering that the player was using very little CPU time.
Finally, I tried PotPlayer, and it worked just fine. Been watching it for quite a while now with no problems at all.
Is this just an issue with the CODECs or something? And if so, it seems like it must be that the codecs have bugs, not that it's a processing overload.
Anyway, I'm curious what the current situation is. It seems like a year ago people were saying that they couldn't play this format, but now, it seems like it's possible with some players, or by not going full screen.
Or is my memory bad, and this was never an issue?
In any event, I really like the deep colors I see in this feed.
EDIT: SmartDVB plays the channel too, with only a occasional spasms . Spasms starting to get more numerous.
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