[mythtv-users] PVR-350 and DVD playback?

Joseph A. Caputo jcaputo1 at comcast.net
Thu Feb 5 12:59:49 EST 2004


On Thursday 05 February 2004 12:30, Torsten Schenkel wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 16:26, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> > On Thursday 05 February 2004 07:51, Torsten Schenkel wrote:
> > > I still use a standalone DVD player for DVD. And my workstation
> > > can transcode divX/mp3 to mpeg2/mp2 in realtime :-) so the
> > > mythbox can play the mpeg stream from NFS.
> >
> > Just curious, what are you using (hw & sw) to do this transcoding?
>
> Nothing off world. A 2400+ Athlon with 1GB memory and mencoder
> (ffmpeg is faster, but doesn't do letterboxing and the PVR expects
> files to be 4:3).
>
> A bit of tweaking and I get ~25fps. That's just the PAL rate, so by
> the time I arrive at the TV, I have the necessary delay to watch
> directly.

What's your CPU utilization while doing this?

-JAC



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