[mythtv-users] transcode?
Mark Knecht
markknecht at gmail.com
Sun Apr 20 03:42:23 UTC 2008
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 8:27 PM, steve <sfreilly at roadrunner.com> wrote:
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> Brian Wood wrote:
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> | On Apr 19, 2008, at 8:48 PM, steve wrote:
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> |> | Since you're using RTjpeg I assume you're using a frame grabber
> |> | card(s).
> |>
> |> yeah pvr150
> |
> |
> | Wups, a PVR-150 is not a frame grabber, it's an MPEG2 hardware
> | encoder. Unless you're transcoding you have MPEG2 files, not RTjpeg,
> | and I don't see any reason you'd want to transcode to RTjpeg.
> |
> |>
> |> If you have the horsepower you could encode to mpeg4
> |> | directly, but you probably know that.
> |>
> |> i went through all the recording profiles and changed the whole
> |> shebang
> |> to mp4, we'll see what happens i guess. using an amd 3200 with a gig
> |> of
> |> ram....not the fastest puppy but it does ok for now... he was going to
> |> watch a south park episode from wed, but it wouldnt play at all... he
> |> just came upstairs to watch it on my trusty ubuntu setup lol.
> |
> | If you selected mpeg4 encoding you don't have a PVR-150, need to
> | resolve this as the first thing I'd want to know is what is the
> | Windows box trying to play.
>
> ok, I guess im not clear on how things are recorded. so the pvr150
> provides a mpeg2 stream which myth records. What does the transcoder do
> then, I have it checked off to transcode after shows record, and I have
> all profiles set at mp4. just changed them.
>
> windows fe just watches recordings, and sometimes live tv. tv works
> fine, recordings always say no codec.
>
I've been curious about this for quite awhile but never tried it. I
have a dual PVR-based 0.21 backend under Gentoo. I downloaded the
windows version from a link on this page:
http://mythtvnews.com/2008/03/17/unofficial-windows-frontend-mythtv-player-updated-for-021/
Fired it up, gave it the ip address of my backend and immediately had video.
I do not intentionally do anything to the video coming from my
PVR-150/250. I'm not totally clean on when to use or not use
transcoding so I've never used it.
Anyway, it's working here. My windows machine is Vista home Premium.
- Mark
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