HazyBlueDot
October 28th, 2008, 11:17 AM
... or what kind of customization can be done as far as video play back settings. Here is my situation. I have Ubuntu 8.04.1 installed on AppleTV. using mplayer with certain options (-vo xc -vfm ffmpeg -lavdopts lowres=1:fast:skiploopfilter=all) I can play back 720p video just fine. Playing the same files in Boxee I generally get frequent slow video which lags behind the audio or jerky video play back. It would be great if I could pass options to the playback engine similar to those I use for mplayer, or if boxee could just call a custom command to play back a file.
On a related note, on such a minimum-resource platform like the apple TV the video overlay feature, that is, keeping the video running in the background when the setting screen comes up, while pretty, doesn't work too smoothly. It would be great to have an option to pause video if the menu is called up.
On a related note, on such a minimum-resource platform like the apple TV the video overlay feature, that is, keeping the video running in the background when the setting screen comes up, while pretty, doesn't work too smoothly. It would be great to have an option to pause video if the menu is called up.