[mythtv] [PATCH] Add transcoding support (final)

[Geoffrey Hausheer]

On Fri, 18 Apr 2003 12:10:17 -0400, "James Knight foom-at-fuhm.net
|mythtv/1.0-Allow|" <kmehhcixpj0t at sneakemail.com> said:
> 
> On Friday, April 18, 2003, at 08:14  AM, Geoffrey Hausheer wrote:
> > 2) Eventualy, I'd like it to run in a thread, if libavcodec ever gets
> > cleaned up.
> 
> What would be the advantage of running in a thread? It seems to me that 
> if you don't need to be a thread, being a process is altogether easier 
> for everyone.
> 
> James
The advantage is the ability to control the transcoder (specifically
pause it and monitor progress) easily.
This could be done with the standalone version too, but it is more messy.

In any case, it is rather unimportant, as it is currently infeasible. 
Since this implementation already includes the standalone transcoder,
there is no reason for it ever to go away.

I will work on moving the polling part of the transcoder into
mythbackend, and will resubmit once done.

.Geoff