[mythtv-users] Does MythTV support HD video and media libraries

[Travis Tabbal]

On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Igor Chudov <igor at chudov.com> wrote:

> Cool. I just installed it (from work, will check when I get home). How
> do you add it?

I didn't. It was installed with Mythbuntu. You may have to install it
as I believe it's a plugin. "apt-cache search mythtv" should help you
find it.

> > I use a fileserver with NFS mounts. Works great.
>
> Same here. My whole house is wired with gigabit and I have numerous
> Linux computers including this basement entertainment one.

The only way to fly. :)

> I tried those things, and did not like it, I prefer everything to be
> "Ubuntu" that is customized with my scripts.

OK. Can't help you much there myself though.

> > For HD input, you can do OTA easy enough with various devices.
>
> Sorry, what is OTA?

Over the Air. Antenna. The best HD available short of Blu-Ray. I use
it with an HDHomeRun network based tuner.

> > Satelite is harder. There is only one component capture device out
> > there right now. The Hauppauge HD-PVR. It's a USB device that does
> > it's own compression of the component video feed to h264.
>
> > It is supported, but requires patching the source.
>
> Do you mean MythTV source or kernel?
>
> I have been recompiling kernel a lot and that part is easy, MythTV, I
> assume not so easy.

Mythtv, though I imagine you might have to do something in the kernel
as it is a USB device. The Wiki is probably the best place to look, I
know those using the HD-PVR have been updating it.

> I think that I should get a big CPU regardless, as I play Bluray files
> that I get from <purchased discs that I ripped myself> ... :)

In that case, yes, go big. Or try to use the VDPAU acceleration. I am
using it with a patched mplayer that NVidia provides the scripts to
build. You download the file, and run a shell script. It gets the
sources you need and compiles them for you. Easier than kernel
building. My CPU use is about 5% on an AMD X2 3800+ when I use VDPAU.
This is with 1080p movies that I couldn't play at all with that CPU
before. I have found that a 6000+ gets the job done for just about
anything I care to throw at it if you prefer to use CPU to do the
work.

You also need the beta NVidia driver, they have a nice forum where you
can read up on it and see if you want to try that. I am not doing it
with Myth right now, just mplayer as I use mplayer to do the playback
of my ripped files. I also have a useful script for those ISO files
one sometimes makes from the discs they purchase. Handles mounting and
playback. Handy.