[mythtv-users] Re: Record broadcast television

[Bruce Smith]

> Right now, it can browse and play mythtv recorded shows,

Can it fast forward though, or skip commercials?

> and browse NFS filesystems to play music, pictures, other MPEG videos, etc.
> In the future, the developers expect to be able to add the ability to delete
> and schedule recordings, but this will take a bit of work and potentially
> protocol extensions.  If you really just want to
> watch TV shows, there isn't a much better deal (as long as your back-end
> records to MPEG-2, anyway).

I have a PVR-250, but I've transcoded many of my recordings to MPEG-4
to save space.  Will it work with those?

Thanks!