[mythtv] Live transcode while recording

Rob Smith kormoc at gmail.com
Mon Dec 1 18:11:43 UTC 2008


On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 5:57 AM, Chase Douglas
<chasedouglas.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> It remains to be seen how this will affect battery life since only
> Apple has access to the hw decoding capabilities of the iPhone. The
> best I have been able to do with sw decoding is a 256x256 recording
> (scaled to the correct aspect ratio) at 15 fps mpeg2 200 kbps. I think
> that leaves just enough headroom for audio decoding and network
> streaming.

That's fairly limited when I can play back 640x480x30 h264 at 700kbit
using the current streaming in mythweb, just have to pre-encode the
video. Is orb also only streaming mpeg-2 to their custom player?


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