[mythtv-users] CBS HD content suddenly doesn't play

raphy rpooser at gmail.com
Wed Feb 25 15:40:56 UTC 2009


On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 9:11 AM, dave <djh999gc at gmail.com> wrote:
> H Z wrote:
>
> My fix has been to use Xine to watch the shows on CBS on my appletv
> mythfrontend. Xine will play back the full HD recording on the ATV and it
> plays fine, although there are errors of dropped frames in the logs.
>
>  So the ATV can potentially playback the content from CBS - it has the
> horsepower (with some framedrops but they're not noticeable) they just can't
> be played by the internal player on the ATV. These same recordings work fine
> from my mac-mini mythfrontend in the living room. I'm toying with the
> thought of transcoding down the CBS recordings to 720p but I really want a
> solution where I can easily choose the recording from my regular menu and
> delete it when done. I have to say I think in my situation it's a case of
> the ATV just doesn't have the horsepower to do everything I want from within
> Mythfrontend natively in full HD, it's just slightly underpowered for the
> task.
>
> using 0.21 with fixes and vdpau.  this workaround works ok for me (using
> xine to watch CBS).
>
>
> ________________________________

Are you guys launching Xine from within the frontend or are you
launching it externally and then going and finding the recordings in
the recording directory? I guess mythrename would need to be used for
that since it would be impossible to find otherwise.


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