[mythtv-users] MythTV Transcode Proxy

[Eric Sharkey]

On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Chase Douglas
<chasedouglas.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> Finally, and this is
> most interesting to me, the frontend can request the stream to be transcoded
> on the fly to a format of the frontend's choosing.

I've been thinking about something like this for a while now with
respect to the mvpmc project (http://mvpmc.sourceforge.net).  They
support on-the-fly transcoding through vlc, but it doesn't really work
very well for mythtv recordings.

It would also be really nice in a house with some HD and some SD
frontends in different rooms to be able to transcode an HD recording
into SD for playback on a low-end frontend system.

Ideally, I'd think this would be something that could be integrated
into the backend/frontend protocol itself, rather than being a
separate piece.

Eric Sharkey