[mythtv-users] use the hardware decoder of PVR350

Kevin Kuphal kuphal at dls.net
Tue Dec 7 00:11:29 UTC 2004


Matthias Meyer wrote:

>Hello, 
> 
>I am running MythTV V0.16 with Debian/Woody and an openMosix-Kernel 2.4.24. 
>I use the hardware encoder of my PVR350. This work fine and the cpu usage 
>(P3 at 600MHz) is around 5%. 
> 
>Now I try to run xine or mplayer within MythVideo. Because of the weak cpu 
>they should use the hardware mpeg decoder of the PVR350. Is this possible?
> 
>Anyone have tried this? 
> 
>Thanks for your help in advance
>
>  
>
Specify the player command-line as Internal for MPEG-2 files and they 
will be played by the internal MythTV player and should work just as 
well as programs recorded from within MythTV.

Kevin



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