[mythtv-users] DVB and transcoding

Isaac Richards ijr at po.cwru.edu
Sat May 8 22:25:44 EDT 2004


On Saturday 08 May 2004 09:45 pm, Bruce Cooper wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I have got MythTV set up and running now, and most things are going
> great, but I do have one problem.  I am using a budget DVB tuner card
> and my backend server is running on a very slow EPIA ME-6000, which is
> incapable of transcoding the MPEG-2 transport stream into a .nuv stream
> in real time.  The result is that whenever I try to record a program, or
> watch live TV for that matter, the CPU on the backend server jumps to
> 100% and after a few minutes of recording or viewing with stutters, the
> recording stops or the entire application seg faults.
<snip>
> All of this would be solved by using the raw MPEG-2 program stream as
> the file format instead of transcoding into nuppelvideo. 

Funnily enough, that's what it does.

Isaac


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