[mythtv-users] Media MVP in the UK

Jonathan Watmough jonathan.watmough at gmail.com
Wed May 4 13:58:26 UTC 2005


On 5/4/05, Barry Jett <bjett80 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 5/3/05, dave at theansells.com <dave at theansells.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I am interested in using a Hauppage Media MVP as a frontend for
> > viewing streams from DVB-T based myth backend. A couple of
> > questions:
> >
> > (1) Can anyone confirm it is possible to view DVB-T streams recorded
> > as TS? (I understand they are mpeg2 but have a .nuv extension.)
> >
> > (2) I have seen on this list there are two types of MVP available and
> > the one "with the yellow dot" is the correct one to get. However the
> > UK Hauppage site doesn't show this model, neither do most of the UK
> > vendors. Can anyone explain the exact model needed in the UK?
> > (Hauppage do seem to have a habit of changing what is inside the box
> > and calling it the same name, eg Nova-T!)
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Dave
> >
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> 
> I have two backends, a PVR-250 recording mpeg-ps files and a firewire box
> recording mpeg-ts. My Hauppage MVP works very well on the mpeg-ps files
> but will not play mpeg-ts files.
> 
> I've been playing with, and appear to be successful, using mencoder to 
> create
> mpeg-ps files from the ts files that will play on the MVP. In fact, I
> just converted
> and watched about two hours of "Hot Rocks" on the science channel, a quite
> excellent series from your side of the pond.
> 
> Conversion of the ts files to ps files using the "copy" codec is quite
> fast....about
> 700 fps on a 2.8G intel, but a little more susceptable to noise. Using the
> mpeg2video codec, conversion is about 70 fps. In either case, the sound 
> must be
> encoded from it's ac3 format to mpeg 1 layer 2 for the MVP to play.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Barry


Barry
Can you post your mencoder/mplayer commands that you use ?
Thanks
Jonathan
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