[mythtv-users] Comcast goes Mpeg4 in Atlanta

[Nick Rout]

On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 9:05 AM, Kirk Bocek <t004 at kbocek.com> wrote:

> Already have Big Buck Bunny. And the bloopers.
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> On June 6, 2015 1:33:59 PM PDT, Gary Buhrmaster <gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 6:15 PM, Kirk Bocek <t004 at kbocek.com> wrote:
>> ....
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>>>  Oh, I'm on Comcast in the SF Bay Area. I'm just getting my ducks in a row. I
>>>  assume this will happen to us at some point.
>>>
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>> Quack-Quack-Quack (the ducks are aligned).
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>> If one wants to test MythTV for H.264 playback, there
>> are a number of free demo's out there (just download
>> a copy of Big Buck Bunny or one of the other blender
>> rendered videos) and throw them into your videos folder.
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>> Certainly (well, almost certainly) the transition will happen
>> in the SF Bay Area, but only Comcast knows when.  In
>> theory they should be able to move more quickly than the
>> encryption of basic (because far fewer customers will be
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>> impacted and/or need new equipment), but it will still require
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>> *training of CSRs to handle the calls, which takes time.Personally, I will be happy when they do my area, mostlyto make it easier to play back the recordings on deviceswithout MPEG2 hardware decoding enabled/supported(i.e. mobile devices).  The savings is space will be abonus.------------------------------*
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I can assure those in the more backward parts of the world that h264 works
fine in HDHR and mythtv. Your video card would have to be quite old to NOT
support h264 acceleration. And if it doesn't, your CPU would have to be
quite old not to be able to decode on the CPU.

I am seeing questions floating about now about h265 being broadcast in
Europe.
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