[mythtv-users] AVCHD camcorder video playback

Richard Shaw hobbes1069 at gmail.com
Wed Sep 1 13:35:27 UTC 2010


On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 8:14 AM, Stephen Robertson
<stephengrobertson at gmail.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know how mythvideo gets's on playing back files generated by
> consumer camcorders. As I understand it some models have their own slight
> variation on the AVCHD standards
> There seem to be quite a few models with not a lot to choose between them so
> I was wondering if anyone had found any that either worked well, or did not
> work well with mythvideo and that might help me narrow down my choices.
> Thanks
> Stephen

I'm not sure about MythTV as it seems to often either use internal or
different libraries for codec decoding but I had luck getting
gstreamer based playback by installing all the
gstreamer-plugins-{good,bad,ugly} on my Fedora system. That should
enable you get get mplayer based playback.

Richard


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