[mythtv-users] asus memo pad 7

[Brian J. Murrell]

On Tue, 2015-02-10 at 15:39 -0500, Eric Sharkey wrote:
> 
> But part of my point was that I don't even try do the transcode live.
> I have a user job to do it and generally kick it off hours/days/weeks
> before I actually get around to watching the recording.

Yes.  That is something that is debated here every now and then.
Somebody shows up and wants to transcode everything they record from
MPEG2 to something else, although it's usually to save disk space and
then the "disk is cheap" crowd pipes up and tells them they are wasting
their time and to just leave it be and just buy more disk.

But playing on non-MPEG2 licensed hardware is a use-case for the
"always-transcode-after-watch" solution.

> You don't
> need a new BE to do that.

As long as I can transcode what I record in a day in a day.  :-)

Other than the delay to transcode, are there any other drawbacks of
having recordings in H.264 vs. MPEG2?

Does MythTV have an H.264 transcoder "out of the box"?  I guess it must
if it can do HLS.

> > And native SD MPEG2 is just fine here.
> 
> I'm having a hard time parsing that sentence.  It seems to involve
> "SD" and "fine" without "not".  I don't know what that means.  ;)

Maybe it's just because I am old and my eyes are going.  But SD for most
of what I watch is perfectly acceptable and so even software decoding on
a mobile device is perfectly capable of handling it, so why waste the
time/money on transcoding?  :-)

b.

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