[mythtv-users] pcHDTV with PVR-350 for output

Dan Lanciani ddl5 at danlan.com
Sat Oct 23 06:11:08 UTC 2004


"jack" <jr at jrh.net> wrote:

|While mythtv is fairly general it does actually store encoder specific cards
|like the pvrXXX series and the pchdtv cards in their native format. Ie, the
|*.nuv files are actually just mpg or ts files respectively with a nuv
|suffix.

Right, I got that.  And I think it is the correct approach since it preserves
maximum information.  However, I somehow had the idea that it would transcode
and scale as necessary near the output.  (In my defense, there is a lot of code
in MythTV proper and a rather large number of libraries.  It isn't immediately
obvious that it doesn't do this. :)

|There is no way the PVR350 is going to play a pchdtv atsc stream.

Sure, if it could I could just copy from /dev/dtv to /dev/video17.  A few
little scripts to make recordings and I wouldn't need MythTV at all... :)

|So while you are not
|going to be able to use the pvr350 for your output, getting it working is
|not a bad idea by any means. You will need a fairly beefy machine to either
|resize in real time or transcode ahead of time. 

I set this up on a 3.2GHz P4 machine with that in mind.  But it sounds like
what I want doesn't really fit the current MythTV infrastructure.  (By the
way, the *other* thing I want is FireWire/DV in/out which might present
similar problems.)  Since MythTV is already rather large and complicated
(and given the problems I'm having with the front end hanging) I'm not sure
whether starting from scratch might be more efficient than hacking the existing
code.

				Dan Lanciani
				ddl at danlan.*com


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