[mythtv-users] RE: does the PVR-350 have issues?

[Torsten Schenkel]

Am Sa, den 27.12.2003 schrieb Malcolm um 04:08:

> > You can't really play a DIVX or MPEG4 file through the TV-Out unless
> > you transcode it to MPEG2 on the way, since the hardware decoder doesn't
> > support this.
> 
> Does mythtv do the transcode on the fly?  I'm still researching
> hardware for a myth box so I'm not familiar with how this is handled.

MPlayer can, but it's quite CPU hungry. AMD2500+ @ 90% for 640x480DivX
to 640x480Mpeg2

Torsten
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Config files for PVR350 TV-Out:
http://www-isl.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de/~hi93/ivtv-pvr-350-conf.tgz
Walkthrough: MythTV on Epia with PVR350 using Debian:
http://www-isl.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de/~hi93/myth/mythtv_debian_epia_pvr350_walkthrough