[mythtv-users] Media MVP front end

[Nick Rout]

On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 22:20:05 -0400
Greg Estabrooks <greg at phaze.org> wrote:

> > So, for those of you who obviously have one, can it playback mpeg4
> > (divx) encoded programs?  I use a cheapie bt87x card for my low-def
> > captures, and am hoping/wondering if this will be able to play them?
> 
>  No. It has hardware to decode mpeg1/2 video only. mpeg4 will either have
> to be converted to mpeg2 or you can ask one of the guys on the mvpmc
> list about how the efforts to design an on the fly transcoder is going.
> 
>  The Hauupage MVP software does asimilar transcode to mpeg2 ondemand to play
> non mpeg2 content.

As a result of this thread and some research I am becoming interested
in this thread. 

However I have a lot of mythvideo files which are usually Xvid/mpeg-4
or similar, and I would need them to be converted to mpeg-2 to stream
them. I am looking through the vlc documentation and it seems to be
able to transcode and stream in one operation. It does say it requires
considerable horsepower to do this.

http://www.videolan.org/doc/streaming-howto/en/ch03.html

presently emerging vlc on my desktop to give it a try.