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

[jacek burghardt]

Well you could get mediatomb to trans code on fly mythtv recordings
http://www.gsjs.org/Home/mythtv-mediatomb.
You could use vdr it has client for rasp


On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 5:58 AM, Eyal Lebedinsky <eyal at eyal.emu.id.au>
wrote:

> 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
>>
>
> --
> Eyal Lebedinsky (eyal at eyal.emu.id.au)
>
> _______________________________________________
> mythtv-users mailing list
> mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
> http://wiki.mythtv.org/Mailing_List_etiquette
> MythTV Forums: https://forum.mythtv.org
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://www.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/attachments/20140629/93e9d693/attachment.html>