[mythtv] IP network recorder with H264 support

Robert Johnston anaerin at gmail.com
Tue May 16 20:15:56 UTC 2006


On 5/16/06, Jean-Michel Bouffard <jean-michel.bouffard at crc.ca> wrote:
> Mark Kendall wrote:
>
> > After installing these two patches, it is possible to record streamed
> >
> >     MPEG2-TS over UDP/IP encoded in MPEG1/2/4 or H.264. We have used VLC
> >     0.8.5 ( www.videolan.org <http://www.videolan.org>) to test these
> >     functionnalities.
> >
> >     Comments are welcome,
> >
> >
> >
> > Working very well here using vlc as the source. I've not tried
> > transcoding to h.264 with vlc but  using it to stream an h.264 ts file
> > (from a previous h.264 ts discussion on this list), the frontend can
> > now play it whereas previously it failed - so definite progress:)
> >
> > No success with BBC hidef h.264 ts files from dvb-t or dvb-s (which
> > launched today).
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Mark
> >
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> Since I'm in Canada, it is difficult for me to have access to broadcast
> H.264 content. Do you think it would be possible for you to send me some
> of these TS files? I'd like to have the h264 TS that worked (and what is
> the source of that file?) and some of these new hidef h.264 ts files
> from dvb-t/s. This could help us to improve the patch so it can work
> with hidef.
>
> Please send me a personnal email (my address is in the signature bellow)
> and I will send you the information of a ftp server you can use to
> upload the files.

There are already some .ts samples of the BBC HD content (One here:
http://www.giusberto.ch/hdtv/). The main reason it can't be played at
the moment is that they are using MBAFF, which
VLC/mplayer/ffmpeg/libavcodec doesn't support (yet). This is in the
works, however.
-- 
Robert "Anaerin" Johnston


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