[mythtv] Mplayer PVR-350

[Torsten Schenkel]

Am Sa, den 24.01.2004 schrieb Thanh Pham um 20:29:
> I don't rememaber where, but there was a mail a few
> weeks ago with the patch attached.  Sorry I don't have
> it. You might want to ask Kevin, the ivtv driver
> developer.
> 
> --- Pete Stapley <pstapley at rapidnet.com> wrote:
> > I am currently using the TV out on my PVR-350 with
> > Mythtv and everything
> > works well except for mythvideo. I believe the
> > version of mplayer I have is
> > too old. I started with Knoppmyth R4 and upgraded
> > the IVTV drivers and
> > MythTV to CVS about a week or so ago. I have been
> > looking in the archives
> > and I have read about a patch for mplayer that will
> > improve Mythvideo
> > playback over the 350 TV out. Any idea where I can
> > find this patch? Thanks

The mplayer patch playes only mpeg1/2 content. If you want a player to
watch mpeg1/2 films you can also use mythtv's player (use the command
'mythtv %s' in mythvideo setup). This gives you synced audio, since
mythtv pushes the whole stream to the pvr's decoder. The Mplayer patch
will demplex the stream and send video to the decoder and audio to the
soundcard. While mplayer has the ability to play ac3 streams mythtv will
only play mpeg1/2 video with mp2 audio (and only if there is only one
video stream, so .vob files won't work in most cases)
 
One drawback of using mythtv is you won't get the accurate length
displayed in the OSD and searching doesn't work as well as with recorded
shows, because there is no index data in the database. But this is only
a minor flaw considered that the mplayer OSD won't work at all :-)

Torsten  
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Walkthrough: MythTV on Epia with PVR350 using Debian:
http://www-isl.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de/~hi93/myth/mythtv_debian_epia_pvr350_walkthrough