<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 7:44 PM, Joseph Fry <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joe@thefrys.com" target="_blank">joe@thefrys.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span class=""><br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">I am not sure what the concern is about in this thread. People outside North America have been getting mpeg4/avc/h.264 (whatever you want to call it) for years. </span><br></div></div></div><div><br></div><div>Yes nVidia hardware decodes it.<br><br></div><div>Hell even raspberry pi hardware decodes it.<br></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></span><div class="gmail_extra">Simply saying that MPEG4 works because it's used elsewhere is making a few big assumptions. US service providers do things all the time (sometimes even ignoring laws) to prevent fair use of content. <br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I think everyone is aware that MPEG4 decoding works... the concerns from the US side are:</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">- that capture hardware targeting the US market may only be designed for MPEG2 (not likely since it's just a binary stream dump in most cases, but possible)</div><div class="gmail_extra">- that the cable providers themselves may do things that impact MythTV (set copy protection flags, use non-standard encoding, etc)</div><div class="gmail_extra">- that the equipment furnished by the providers (cable cards/boxes) may not be compatible after the change, forcing folks to get new equipment that may not be compatible with their setup, or require additional effort (new channel change scripts, blaster configurations, etc).</div><div class="gmail_extra">- that processing the new recordings (comm flag, transcode, etc) may require more resources or be slower.</div><div class="gmail_extra">- that the company's tech support is completely clueless about the changes and cant support users with issues</div><div class="gmail_extra">- etc.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I suspect that everyone expects that it will work,but it's still comforting to hear from those who are being upgraded to MPEG4.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></div>
<br></blockquote><div><br><br></div><div>You and the other person who responded ot my post bring up good points. I think that the transcoding may indeed be a problem, although there are many past threads on here dealing with it.<br></div><div><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">_______________________________________________<br>
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