[mythtv-users] Need suggestion for Frontend only fanless solution

[Steve Adeff]

On Friday 07 October 2005 22:06, Patrick Watson wrote:
> Steve Adeff wrote:
> > On Friday 07 October 2005 20:26, Patrick Watson wrote:
> >> bill peck wrote:
> >>> On 10/7/05, *Bruce Smith* <blubdog at gmail.com
> >>> <mailto:blubdog at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>     Will it play shows from the backend that have been transcoded to
> >>>     MPEG-4?
> >>> No it will not.  The roku can only decode MPEG1 and MPEG2.
> >>
> >> Unfortunately that kills it for me. MPEG-4 and similar codecs like DivX,
> >> Xvid, etc are a must-have for me. MythMusic and MythGame are nice too.
> >> :)
> >>
> >> Patrick
> >
> > is mpeg-4 a cpu problem or?
>
> I'm not sure if you meant that as a "why doesn't MPEG-4 work?" or a "Why
> is MPEG-4 a must have?"
> As far as why it doesn't work, I have no idea. The only experience I
> have with this device is this email thread. As for my reasons: I
> transcode everything to MPEG-4 so that it doesn't eat up as much disk
> space. Thus, if I were to loose MPEG-4 playback, most of my library
> wouldn't be playable.
>
> Patrick

yea,  I meant why won't it play them. someone else answered that. But I agree 
with you, my front end HAS to be able to play mpeg-4 as I as well archive 
using XviD. Here's waiting for that day!

Steve