[mythtv] Myth on embedded Hardware

[Jason Schloer]

I'm not the best with transcoding, so I can't answer that, however, if the
backend is using a pvr250 or pchdtv, you'll get the mpeg2 stream that you
want. 

Now my question is where can I get this hardware and for how much. I see
that it supports hdtv so I think it's a very interesting chip. Do you have
the reference board or something?

-Jason


-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org]
On Behalf Of Tom Stoeveken
Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 3:39 AM
To: Development of mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv] Myth on embedded Hardware

Of which components does MythTv consist?
As far as I understand there was first this NuppelVideoPlayer which uses 
FFmpeg. Then Isaac R. took the Nuppel Code and based his C++ Classes on 
top of this Player. So we have different projects and  typedefs in our 
sourcecode, right?

Is it right that the backend records ether in RTJpeg or in MPEG4? Since 
these two formats are fast on a PC, my embedded hw only supports MPEG2 - 
it is not fast enough to decode MPEG4/RTjpeg without hw support. Is it 
right that the backend (running on a PC) may transcode the material to 
MPEG2, so my frontend on my embedded hw needs only a mpeg2 decoder for 
watching TV/Video?

Very basic questions, but to figure out these issues from the source 
takes longer than to ask.
Thanks in advance,
Tom