[mythtv-users] How to transcode to SD within mythtv - system too slow to play HD

Raymond Wagner raymond at wagnerrp.com
Mon Dec 9 05:21:55 UTC 2013


On 12/8/2013 10:35 PM, A. F. Cano wrote:
> I installed myth 0.26.1+fixes20 from deb-multimedia (deb packages for
> Debian Wheezy).  Combined FE/BE.  I've recorded a few shows, but they
> are in HD and the computer is too slow to play HD, even though the
> display is 1920x1200.

Are you sure the hardware is inadequate and it's not a configuration 
issue? Any desktop hardware from ~2005 on should be able to handle HD 
MPEG2, and anything a few years after that can handle HD H264, assuming 
your graphics hardware cannot accelerate decoding of either.


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