[mythtv-users] Automatic mythtranscode
Chris Petersen
lists at forevermore.net
Mon Jan 17 03:38:59 EST 2005
> I am curious about the history of this. Was Nupplevideo the best choice
> at the time the system was developed? I have often wondered why Myth
> uses the nupple player rather than taking something like mplayer and
> adding Myth features to it (Myth OSD, keyboard interface, commercial skip
> and editing modes. Aside from the fact that mplayer seems a very actively
> developed project with support for huge numbers of different video formats
> (including nuv and ty) it would also mean a single player for DVDs, videos
> and TV recordings with a single UI.
I think that there is a fair amount of this in the dev list archives..
But basically, as I understand it, NUV is the only container format that
has per-frame sync adjustments, which Isaac felt/feels is necessary for
some of the things that mythtv does with its software-encoded recordings.
-Chris
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