[mythtv-users] Media MVP front end

Nick Rout nick at rout.co.nz
Fri Nov 4 22:43:10 EST 2005


On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 22:20:05 -0400
Greg Estabrooks <greg at phaze.org> wrote:

> > So, for those of you who obviously have one, can it playback mpeg4
> > (divx) encoded programs?  I use a cheapie bt87x card for my low-def
> > captures, and am hoping/wondering if this will be able to play them?
> 
>  No. It has hardware to decode mpeg1/2 video only. mpeg4 will either have
> to be converted to mpeg2 or you can ask one of the guys on the mvpmc
> list about how the efforts to design an on the fly transcoder is going.
> 
>  The Hauupage MVP software does asimilar transcode to mpeg2 ondemand to play
> non mpeg2 content.
> 
> 


I see that Hauppauge seem to be selling off the current version of the
mvp cheap (see earlier in this thread.)

<prediction hat>
they will release a version that does hardware mpeg-4 decoding
</prediction hat>


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