Does anyone know how to play TS files from DVB-T on OSX. I have tried Quicktime X and it doesn't want to play them. I was hoping to use the HW acceleration in Quicktime X.
nigelramsay: You could try MPlayer OSX Extended, which is supposed to be more efficient than VLC/
Looks interesting. I'll have a look at this one when I get home from work and report back on my experience.
Ok I've had a play with the latest versions of both VLC and MPlayer OSX Extended.
MPOSXE (Rev 12) wasn't as good as VLC in the tests. It doesn't know how to play the interlaced Freeview HD channels at the correct frame-rate, so video lags audio by about 2:1. I had a play with all the available preferences and it made no difference to this. That only leaves the non-interlaced channels (TV1 & TV2), the recordings from both of which used at least 100% of a CPU core on my 2.4Ghz 13" unibody Macbook. I had to have the multithreading option enabled to get playback stable. On the positive side, it did know about the audio codecs, which is a common problem I run into with playing Freeview content.
VLC (Ver 1.0.2) on the other hand plays recordings from all the channels at the correct framerate, and used 10-20% less CPU for the same media- mostly sitting around 90% CPU.
I also noted that MPlayer uses around 10% more bandwidth than VLC when playing files over a LAN. I don't understand why it is happening, but it meant that MPlayer struggled to play any HD content over WiFi, whereas VLC seemed to manage (just).
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