[mythtv-users] EPIA M10000 & Plextor ConvertX MPEG2 ??

[Alan Hourihane]

On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 14:19 -0400, Chris Pinkham wrote:
> * On Tue Jul 10, 2007 at 01:30:15PM +0100, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> > I've looked at NuppelVideoRecorder.cpp and seen that the MPEG4 is the
> > only option currently.
> > 
> > Is it a big job to fix this ? or is someone working on it already ?
> 
> I recently purchased one of the tuner-less ConvertX boxes and have
> captured MPEG-2 from it inside Myth.  I haven't committed code to allow
> this yet because I'm also working on another patch which allows
> NuppelVideoRecorder to write out container formats other than Nuppel.
> This would allow you to write out a mpeg-ps container format file
> which would then be played by Myth using avformatdecoder which would
> allow you to use the hardware acceleration on your board.  If we were
> to write the MPEG-2 video directly to a nuppel file (which I have
> done and tested), then you would not be able to take advantage of
> the hardware acceleration unless we also reproduced a lot of the code
> from avformatdecoder inside NuppelVideoRecorder.
> 
> So, long-story-short, you can't do it now, but you will be able to in
> the future.
> 
> > I'm willing to hack the code up and support this option if it's not
> > already been done.
> 
> More than a simple hack, that's why I haven't got it in yet.  Basically
> the file writing portion of NVR has been broken out into NuppelWriter
> and AVFormatWriter classes so we can potentially write out any format
> supported by libavformat.  The goal of part of this is to allow
> mythtranscode to replace ffmpeg in the MythWeb streaming code.
> I already have mythtranscode converting recordings to .flv in my
> current patch.  Initially the only formats supported will be nuv,
> mpeg-ps, and flv, but others could be added as they are tested and
> proved working.  As part of this, the transcoder now uses the libav*
> audio resampler if necessary because flv only supports certain
> sample rates.

Thanks for the response Chris.

I guess you know the next question.... :-)

When do you expect to commit it ?

Is there a branch I should track for this ?

Thanks again,

Alan.