[mythtv-users] transcoding HDTV files

[John Patrick Poet]

On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, Angel Li wrote:

> John Patrick Poet wrote:
>
> >On Sun, 30 May 2004, Angel Li wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>Hola,
> >>
> >>Is anyone able to transcode HDTV .nuv files? If you are having success,
> >>would you mind posting your shell script?
> >>
> >>I've had some "success" but I had to patch one of mplayer's libraries
> >>before I could use mencoder. Now, I'm searching for the right
> >>incantation for generating clean looking, small size DiVX files.
> >>
> >>I just recently, ie yesterday, got my MythTV computer put back together
> >>running Fedora 2 and nVidia drivers and the 2.6.6 driver from
> >>pchdtv.com. It's an Athlon 3000 machine and I still get stuttering when
> >>the OSD fades away while watching live TV.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Sorry, have not tried to transcode...
> >
> >Out of curiosity, how well does your machine playback HDTV if you disable
> >XvMC?  On my 2.8 GHz HT P4, I get MUCH smoother playback with XvMC
> >disabled.  I would think that an Athlon 3000 would be powerful enough to
> >see the same affect.
> >
> >
> >
> I turned off XvMC and it didn't seem to matter much, the OSD still
> stuttered, maybe a little less. When watching live TV, is the OSD
> display all gray? Mine is, the screen shots I saw on the web site are
> red and blue.


All grey means that XvMC is enabled -- or you are using the default OSD
theme, instead of the blue one.

John