[mythtv-users] Comcast goes Mpeg4 in Atlanta

[Mark Perkins]

> On 7 Jun 2015, at 9:21 am, "Nick Rout" <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 9:05 AM, Kirk Bocek <t004 at kbocek.com> wrote:
>> Already have Big Buck Bunny. And the bloopers.
>> 
>> 
>>> On June 6, 2015 1:33:59 PM PDT, Gary Buhrmaster <gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 6:15 PM, Kirk Bocek <t004 at kbocek.com> wrote:
>>>> ....
>>>>  Oh, I'm on Comcast in the SF Bay Area. I'm just getting my ducks in a row. I
>>>>  assume this will happen to us at some point.
>>> 
>>> Quack-Quack-Quack (the ducks are aligned).
>>> 
>>> If one wants to test MythTV for H.264 playback, there
>>> are a number of free demo's out there (just download
>>> a copy of Big Buck Bunny or one of the other blender
>>> rendered videos) and throw them into your videos folder.
>>> 
>>> Certainly (well, almost certainly) the transition will happen
>>> in the SF Bay Area, but only Comcast knows when.  In
>>> theory they should be able to move more quickly than the
>>> encryption of basic (because far fewer customers will be
>>> impacted and/or need new equipment), but it will still requiretraining of CSRs to handle the calls, which takes time.
>>> Personally, I will be happy when they do my area, mostly
>>> to make it easier to play back the recordings on devices
>>> without MPEG2 hardware decoding enabled/supported
>>> (i.e. mobile devices).  The savings is space will be a
>>> bonus.
> 
> I can assure those in the more backward parts of the world that h264 works fine in HDHR and mythtv. Your video card would have to be quite old to NOT support h264 acceleration. And if it doesn't, your CPU would have to be quite old not to be able to decode on the CPU. 
> 
> I am seeing questions floating about now about h265 being broadcast in Europe.
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For me the question re mpeg4 is more around where commflagging, transcoding to cut commercials and similar functions are up to? My understanding (could be wrong) is currently not supported?

But it should play fine and also seek fine even though no seek table.
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