[mythtv-users] CLEXF40030

[Isaac Richards]

On Sunday 19 October 2003 04:54 am, rwk at americom.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Regarding the PVR-250 MPEG decoder and mythtv...
>
> I noticed that Release 1.2 of the source code for the VIA CLE266 mpeg
> library was released sometime in September.  It says:
>
>     "Release 1.2 available. Now up to date with CLEXF40030 driver.
>
> Can anyone tell me if this means that it will now work with mythtv?
> (I understood from previous discussions that it was not compatible with
> XFree86 drivers and kernel drivers.)

It's always worked with mythtv, if you were using the rest of via's binary 
driver.  The libddmpeg library is just a tiny little wrapper that needs to 
talk to the kernel modules to do anything useful.

> Also, if native mpeg files captured with the PVR-250 mpeg encoder are
> transcoded, I assume this means they cannot be played back with the
> PVR-250 MPEG decoder.  Is this correct?

Right, since they would no longer be mpeg files.

Isaac