[mythtv-users] transcoding

Tim Sailer tps at buoy.com
Mon Nov 29 14:08:23 UTC 2004


On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 10:20:36PM -0800, nate s wrote:
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> On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 18:46:51 -0500, Tim Sailer <tps at buoy.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 07:02:05AM +1000, James Lever wrote:
> > 
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> > > Hi Tim,
> > >
> > > On 29 Nov 2004, at 6:05 AM, Tim Sailer wrote:
> > >
> > > >I have been playing around with the mvpmc stuff for the MediaMVP, and
> > > >have noticed something. Some recorded shows don't seem to play on the
> > > >MVP. I ran 'file' on the different files. The raw files (I have a
> > > >PVR-250) show up as "MPEG system stream data". The files that are
> > > >transcoded from within MythTV are simply "data", and the MVP can't
> > > >play these.
> > >
> > > From what I understand of the MediaMVP and other (cheaper) devices like
> > > it, they are custom systems which extremely small CPU capabilities with
> > > a hardware MPEG (1/2) decoder chip.  This means that if you do any
> > > transcoding, you must be transcoding to MPEG (1/2) format otherwise you
> > > will not be able to playback on these machines.
> > 
> > Right. I thought the internal transcoding was to either mpeg1 or mpeg2.
> > If it's not, what is it?
>
> mpeg4, AFAIK

nuvinfo (just got a chance to look) shows DIVX. Bleh. Is there *any*
way to keep them as MPEG2 with the auto-transcode?

Tim

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