[mythtv-users] MythTV Is Now Forked As Torc

[Nick Rout]

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Eric Sharkey <eric at lisaneric.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
>> Simple take away, live transcoding and "content negotiation" are not the
>> magical solution to all your content format woes.
>
> No one asked for a magical solution to fix everything and make any
> client be able to view any content.
>
> I can tell you that on my 3.0 GHz Core 2 Duo backend, the transcoding
> script I have for my cell phone runs faster than real time on 1080i
> mpeg2 input content recorded from Comcast via firewire/HDHR.  That
> tells me that it would be possible to make this work at least some of
> the time with relatively modest hardware.  Will it work for everyone?
> Probably not, but that's ok as long as it works for me.  ;)

What is it transcoding to? (codec? frame size?)

What are you using? mencoder? x264?  ffmpeg? handbrake? avidemux?