I tested this last night on three different laptops, with three different reactions..
I have five different types of channel:
ATSC SD with ac3 audio
ATSC SD with mp3 audio (via steamdev / fmpeg and vdr-iptv - a cludge to allow my hardware mvp's to work)
ATSC HD with ac3 audio
a Hauppauge PVR HD, which works via pvrinput, H264, ac3 audio
PVR 500 anlogue MPEG2, mp3 audio
I loaded ac3filter to handle the audio on all PC's. All PC's also have
Laptop 1. An Asus, with GMA900 graphics chipset, powerdvd 9 codecs.. Vista Ultimate via WIFI..
Everything worked, but not well, lots of stuttering. The h264 worked better than the mpeg2 ATSC HD stuff, but I think the bitrate would be lower.
PC Pentium 4 with Intel Graphics, XP.. Wired ethernet
This was the worst of the three.
Selecting ac3filter crashed vompclient immediately. I had to go to the server and manually edit the config file..
ATSC with ac3 audio stuttered horribly.
The reencoded stuff was a little better, but only a little..
H264 refused to play completely.
MPEG2 HD updated the picture about once every 10 seconds..
Laptop 3, ACER Aspire 5920G, Dual Core with Nvidia 8600 GFA.. Wifi..
This was nice and fast, and played everything, but the HD content was playing back wrong.. I think it was the vframe issue pointed out elsewhere, it looked like two videoprojectors were pointing at the same screen but one was out of sync slightly...
Recordings played back better than live tv..
Old HD MPEG2 ATSC recordings made under VDR 1.6 didn't play at all, but I think we knew that..
I am in the process of compiling a CVS hardware dongle so I can leave the cvs server code in VDR and the hardware mvp's will work.. Once done I will try testing again..
I noticed the media code was missing in the beta test.. Will that be missing in the latest cvs hardware version too?