[mythtv] H.264 over MPEG-2 TS recording and playback

[Daniel Kristjansson]

On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 13:51 -0500, Jean-Francois Roy wrote:

> To cut the long story short, digital radio standards pretty much all use
> H.264 as the main video codec, and MythTV has a little bit of trouble

> I was wondering if anyone had started working on patches or if I could
> get some suggestions from the developers (I'm relatively new to the
> MythTV codebase) as to what needs to be done.

There has been some talk about supporting it, and from what I understand
it is supported when in the quicktime container. But from what you have
been saying it looks like it isn't in an mpeg-ts stream yet. The backend
shouldn't have any problem with it. Though I've never had streams to
test with, I've always kept it in mind since we will need to support
it when it becomes the HDTV standard in Europe.

AFAIK no one is seriously working on this at the moment. But, if you
constructed some mpeg-ts test streams with H.264 available, that
might spur development... If you have any specific questions, feel
free to direct them to me. 

If you want to submit some of your patches for inclusion, open a ticket
at svn.mythtv.org, and one of the developers (probably me) will take a
look at it...

-- Daniel