[mythtv-users] How much is too much CPU?

[Craig Treleaven]

At 12:08 PM -0400 5/31/13, Byron Poland wrote:
>On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Gary Buhrmaster 
><<mailto:gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com>gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com> wrote:
>On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Raymond Wagner 
><<mailto:raymond at wagnerrp.com>raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
>.....
>  > If they're intentionally restricting the ability of the hardware 
>to play the
>  > content
>By not licensing the MPEG2 codec they probably saved themselves
>a few dollars per device(*).  And when you sell millions and millions, that
>turns into real money (which is kept in Ireland :-).
>
>(*) And while many of the MPEG-2 patents have expired, the price
>     for the pool has not gone down AFAIK.
>
>I use <http://www.instatv-app.com/>http://www.instatv-app.com/ to 
>stream from my hdhomerun directly to my ipad/iphone for live tv 
>sometimes with out much trouble (in the house)  sometimes bandwidth 
>on wifi is an issue, but it's the only thing I have that I know of 
>that plays an mpeg2 stream on ios.

Oh yeah, I'd forgotten that.  Thanks, but I'm looking to playback 
Myth's recordings.

Transcoding to H264 for tablets and phones will save a huge amount of 
wireless bandwidth.  Video can be scaled to appropriate dimensions; 
H264 is much more compact; etc.  HLS lets the client negotiate for 
the best stream that can be delivered right now.  I think it has some 
good stuff.

So asking another way, is there a run of thumb on how many streams a 
given processor can encode from North American broadcast OTA?

Craig