[mythtv] R5000-HD
Info at quantum-sci.com
Info at quantum-sci.com
Fri Jul 11 13:06:09 UTC 2008
Thank you Alan, for this wonderful solution, and many thanks to the Myth-dev team as well. I really hope this works something close to how it seems.
On Thursday 10 July 2008 23:23:13 Alan Nisota wrote:
> Most of these questions are myth-users related.
Ya, as I get things going I'll likely have more dev-oriented questions.
> The R5000 solution is quite expensive. While I haven't tried it myself,
> I'd seriously consider an HD-PVR instead as it doesn't tie you to a
> single provider/STB. Your support is likely to be better as the number
> of users will be significantly larger.
Nah. Open-source for me, thank you. Debian user for many years.
> > Can commercials indeed be eliminated automatically?
> I've not had much luck with this on HD material due to mythcommflag not
> playing nicely with CoreAVC. I never figured out why that was though.
I wonder whether devs here are aware of this? Maybe others are recording HD as well, and have seen this issue, or maybe it's a generic refinement that can be made.
> Channel changing is quite slow though. Surfing channels is painful, but who watches LiveTV anymore?
I've noticed very slow response on Microsoft recorders too, at customer sites. (I am a Dish tech) I suspect alot of this is USB latency. I wish firewire had been used instead.
> Dish broadcasts in H264-AVC using PAFF encoding with frame interlacing
OK, it looks like ffmpeg can only decode H.264. Haven't started research yet, but hope to find a video card which can do maybe en/decode in hardware (wouldn't that be nice?), but for now will plan lots of horsepower for software en/de/transcode.
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