[mythtv] H.264 over MPEG-2 TS recording and playback

Steven Adeff adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com
Thu Mar 16 23:06:44 UTC 2006


On 3/16/06, Daniel Kristjansson <danielk at cuymedia.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 13:51 -0500, Jean-Francois Roy wrote:
>
> > To cut the long story short, digital radio standards pretty much all use
> > H.264 as the main video codec, and MythTV has a little bit of trouble
>
> > I was wondering if anyone had started working on patches or if I could
> > get some suggestions from the developers (I'm relatively new to the
> > MythTV codebase) as to what needs to be done.
>
> There has been some talk about supporting it, and from what I understand
> it is supported when in the quicktime container. But from what you have
> been saying it looks like it isn't in an mpeg-ts stream yet. The backend
> shouldn't have any problem with it. Though I've never had streams to
> test with, I've always kept it in mind since we will need to support
> it when it becomes the HDTV standard in Europe.
>
> AFAIK no one is seriously working on this at the moment. But, if you
> constructed some mpeg-ts test streams with H.264 available, that
> might spur development... If you have any specific questions, feel
> free to direct them to me.
>
> If you want to submit some of your patches for inclusion, open a ticket
> at svn.mythtv.org, and one of the developers (probably me) will take a
> look at it...
>
> -- Daniel

I can create some h264 (with x264, don't know if it makes a
difference) if anyone wants to test this?

--
Steve


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