I'm going on a trip soon, and so in order to transfer some video onto my laptop, I decided to instruct Myth to transcode a bunch of MPEG2 recordings I had to MPEG4. The resulting files work perfectly on the laptop, look pretty decent, and are nearly a quarter the size of the originals to boot. *But*, I discovered this morning, much to my chagrin, that the newly-transcoded versions no longer play back smoothly on my VIA EPIA frontend using the internal player (ie, when playing them from the Watch Recordings page).
<br><br>Thinking that my FE may just be a little wimpy, I decided to test the files with mplayer. And it was able to play them back perfectly. So it *looks* like the box should be capable. For reference, it's a 1.2Ghz VIA, and the videos are 720x480.
<br><br>So, are there any settings I can tweak somewhere to improve MPEG4 playback performance of the internal player? Or am I stuck just copying the files to the video directory and playing them back from MythVideo?<br>
<br>As an aside, I've already reconfig'd Myth so it won't delete the originals when performing a transcode job, lest I get bit by this again. :)<br><br>Brett.<br>