[mythtv-users] Completely cable/satellite cutting???

[George Mari]

On 9/10/16 9:46 AM, James Abernathy wrote:
> I’m a longtime Mythtv and DirecTV user.  I started using Mythtv with 
> HDHomeRun and HVR-2250 to offload my DirecTV 2 channel recording limit 
> by recording all OTA local channels on Mythtv and using the DirecTV 
> DVR for recording Satellite only channels.
>
> <snip>
> With all that said, I’m now trying to figure out the fewest interfaces 
> on my TV so my wife and I can view everything.  She can work DirecTV, 
> so I think she will be able to work Roku and Kodi.  But it sure would 
> be nice to get it to just the Roku.
>
> That means I need to setup/convert Mythtv to be compatible with Roku.
>
One stumbling block I am aware of is that OTA recordings are native 
MPEG2 format, while most set-top boxes such Roku, if they support 
something like UPNP, natively support MP4 or H.264 or whatever.

I think you can meet at least this requirement by transcoding all your 
MythTV records to MPEG4.

You would lose commercial detection / skipping, but maybe the set-top 
box you "connect" to MythTV allows skip ahead by 30 seconds, so maybe 
not an issue.
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