[mythtv] Stutter mostly (but not quite) gone with 01/08 CVS

Christian Hack christianh at edmi.com.au
Mon Jan 10 01:39:42 EST 2005


> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org 
> [mailto:mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Isaac Richards
> 
> On Monday 10 January 2005 12:08 am, Joshua M. Thompson wrote:
> > Isaac Richards wrote:
> > > On Sunday 09 January 2005 11:01 pm, Joshua M. Thompson wrote:
> > >>Running CVS as of late yesterday i am finding that although the
> > >>stuttering video is mostly gone, it still pops back on 
> occasion for my
> > >>MPEG-2 recordings and occurs every time when trying to 
> play recordings
> > >>transcoded to MPEG-4.
> > >
> > > So, don't transcode?
> >
> > Well yes that's fine for now but I'm sort of running out of 
> hard disk
> > space.
> 
> Transcoding's pretty much unsupported.  Guy that wrote it 
> doesn't really 
> contribute that often anymore, and none of the other devs use 
> it (as far as I 
> know).  It breaks fairly often, especially for non-mpeg4 -> mpeg4.
> 

I wasn't aware it was unsupported but for the record my DVB (i.e. MPEG2) to
MPEG4 transcoding always works great and saves about 50% of disk space. In
fact transcoding to MPEG4 was how I was able to watch a few things when
ffmpeg went a bit bad recently.

CH




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