[mythtv-users] Playing back PVR500 recordings on PVR350 decoder

Petter Gundersen pettergundersen at gmail.com
Tue Jan 10 18:09:49 UTC 2006


On 1/10/06, Ole Andre Schistad <oschista at chello.no> wrote:
> I recently added a PVR500 to my existing mythtv box, and am hoping there
> is a way to play back all recordings using the hardware decoder chip on
> the 350. My primary reason for this is simply that mpeg2 looks much
> better when output through the HW decoder than when played back in
> software, although I am also experiencing some problems getting sound
> when using software playback (complains about my alsa settings).
>
> Since the encoder on the PVR500 should produce an identical mpeg2 stream
> to that on the PVR350, there should be no reason why it can't be done -
> only that mythtv may not be coded to actually do things this way out of
> the box.
>
> I expect that there is a flag somewhere in the database which myth uses
> to determine wether to dump a given file to the PVR350s decoder chip or
> to software decode it to the framebuffer? If so, then one way of
> achieving what I want would be to run a periodic equivalent to UPDATE
> tablename SET flagname='recorded_by_350' where
> flagname='not_recorded_by_350' or similar .. but maybe there is a more
> elegant way ? Or am I not supposed to have this particular problem to
> begin with? :)
>

You are not supposed to have this problem. ;)

If your programs recorded with the pvr350 are set up to play through
the hardware decoder, so will your pvr500 recordings. Works out of the
box.

Regards,
Petter


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