[mythtv-users] transcoding

[Tim Sailer]

On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 07:02:05AM +1000, James Lever wrote:
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> Hi Tim,
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> On 29 Nov 2004, at 6:05 AM, Tim Sailer wrote:
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> >I have been playing around with the mvpmc stuff for the MediaMVP, and
> >have noticed something. Some recorded shows don't seem to play on the
> >MVP. I ran 'file' on the different files. The raw files (I have a
> >PVR-250) show up as "MPEG system stream data". The files that are
> >transcoded from within MythTV are simply "data", and the MVP can't
> >play these.
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> From what I understand of the MediaMVP and other (cheaper) devices like 
> it, they are custom systems which extremely small CPU capabilities with 
> a hardware MPEG (1/2) decoder chip.  This means that if you do any 
> transcoding, you must be transcoding to MPEG (1/2) format otherwise you 
> will not be able to playback on these machines.

Right. I thought the internal transcoding was to either mpeg1 or mpeg2.
If it's not, what is it?

Tim

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