[mythtv-users] Pundit mythtv

[Scot L. Harris]

On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 05:15, Neale Swinnerton wrote:
> >
> > Ah! So those boards have on board mpeg2 decoding that works with stuff
> > recorded using a PVR-350 or PVR-250.  I'm not really interested in using
> > this for avi's, just for the TV recordings.
> >
> 
> You might have to mess around with transcode for this to get the
> recordings in the correct format. I was watching a recording made via a
> PVR-250 last night and I noticed that I was getting the colour OSD which
> tells me I wasn't using XVMC-VLD (XVMC-VLD OSD is currently black/white).
> I haven't investigated why because it plays fine on my MII 12000.
> 
> Note also that you can't do PIP if you're using XVMC-VLD, this doesn't
> bother me too much. After the initial 'Oh look PIP!!!, I never use this'.

I don't think I understand.  If the PVR-350/250 encodes a show in mpeg2
format what kind of transcoding is needed to get this to play through an
epia board?

What does XVMC-VLD do?

I have not done any transcoding with my current mythtv system.  Have not
seen a need for it.

I also don't use PIP.  As you found it was interesting that it can be
done but it is not really useful in this case.  


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