[mythtv-users] Can mythtv transcode on the fly (as a media server)?

[Eyal Lebedinsky]

Jean-Yves, Richard,

I understand your sentiment, however this is not a matter of $$s but an interest
in what can be done. Just hacking for fun, which is what the raspi is for.

I copied across a transcoded (mpg->xvid) recording and it plays just fine. I
want to see if I can set up a system that uses this capability.

BTW, at identical bitrate transcoding the original mpg looks better than the
resulting avi (on a strong machine, not on the raspi).

Eyal

On 06/29/14 21:11, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> On 29 June 2014 02:00, Eyal Lebedinsky <eyal at eyal.emu.id.au> wrote:
>
>> I am testing a raspi which does not include support for hardware mpeg. The
>> CPU is too
>> weak for software decoding. I want to transcode to something it can play
>> (yet to be
>> discovered).
>
> my guess is that the poor dollar required for mpeg decoding you didn't
> spend is going to cost you quite a lot in the end...
>
> Just buy the mpeg hardware decoding license.
>
> I'd be quite surprised if a rpi was too slow for mpeg decoding, but
> fast enough for mp4/nuv

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Eyal Lebedinsky (eyal at eyal.emu.id.au)