[mythtv-users] How much is too much CPU?

[Craig Treleaven]

At 9:53 AM -0400 5/31/13, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
>On 13-05-31 08:36 AM, Craig Treleaven wrote:
>>
>>  I could see serving up to 3 HLS
>>  clients in our house between iDevices and wireless laptops.
>
>Why transcode your HLS streams if you are in your house, where
>presumably the Myth BE is and presumably bandwidth is not a limitation?
>
>I stream from my BE to my android devices using the MythTV Android
>Frontend and don't transcode but stream the native file format (MPEG2
>here) directly, skipping any transcoding and the CPU expense it incurs.


I'm not aware of any decent MPEG2 players for iDevices.  Also, our 
wireless network is crowded with 4-5 neighbour's nets of varying 
strengths so throughput isn't spectacular.

Craig