[mythtv-users] MPEG-4 Decoder hardware

[Chris Pinkham]

> Is there any known MPEG-4 decoder hardware that works with MythTV?  I'm 
> looking to build a frontend utilizing and old PIII-450 and my main 
> backend has a WinTV card that I record in RTJPEG on and transcode much 
> of it to MPEG-4 for storage.  I also have a large number of Videos that 
> I have encoded as MPEG-4 and I'd love to have a frontend that could play 
> this back using my existing hardware.   I've come across some boards 
> from Sigma Designs but didn't see much in the way of Linux support nor 
> could I tell that if it did have Linux drivers if those would be enough 
> to work with MythTV or if something more was necessary.
> 
> Thanks,
> Kevin

I use a Celeron 466 as my main frontend and have no problems playing
mpeg-4 .nuv files and mpeg2 files from MythTV and have no problems playing
.avi mpeg-4 files from other sources either.  Make sure whatever video
card you have in the machine can use the Xv output so scaling can be
done in hardware and that P3-450 should be able to play mpeg-4 fine.

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Chris