[mythtv] Ray - Questions about your setup

[Brent D. Norris]

I have a friend who has done something similar with his webvcr+ setup.
http://webvcrplus.sourceforge.net/

It allows him to record stuff that he schedules via a web interface.  It
encodes it in a really light weight encoder and then you setup the time
span (say 60 free minutes) that it should look for in its database where
it has nothing to do and during that time it will encode them into DIVX.
I think that setup works really well for him.

Brent


Brent Norris (http://brentnorris.net)
Assistant Technology Coordinator, Edmonson County Schools
H: 270.563.9226

On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Scott and Jill Gargash wrote:

>
> > I was planning on buying some kind of mjpeg hardware
> > card (most likely iomega buz) to do video input and
> > hardware compression, assuming that my PC is too wimpy
> > to compress and decompress in software.
>
> I also have a too slow computer, but I was thinking about approaching it
> from a different angle.
> Why not use a very simple (computationally speaking) video codec for
> live TV viewing. Sure it would take a lot of disk space, but disk space
> is cheap.  And when the machine is doing nothing (which is most of the
> time) transcode into a more space efficient compression format for
> archiving purposes.  I've heard reports of P400s being able to do
> realtime DVD encoding, so a full up MPEG2 at NTSC resolutions should be
> achievable.  And since the transcoding does not have to be real-time, it
> can also perform high quality deinterlacing, noise reduction, commercial
> elimination, whatever.
>
> Since it will be transcoding, the original encoding wants to be as high
> a quality as possible, ideally lossless. What are computationally simple
> video codecs with high video quality, and what IO requirements do they
> have?  And what's involved in adding a new codec and transcoding
> capabilities to myth?
>
> 	Scott
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