[mythtv-users] transcoding HDTV files

[Angel Li]

John Patrick Poet wrote:

>On Sun, 30 May 2004, Angel Li wrote:
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>>Hola,
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>>Is anyone able to transcode HDTV .nuv files? If you are having success,
>>would you mind posting your shell script?
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>>I've had some "success" but I had to patch one of mplayer's libraries
>>before I could use mencoder. Now, I'm searching for the right
>>incantation for generating clean looking, small size DiVX files.
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>>I just recently, ie yesterday, got my MythTV computer put back together
>>running Fedora 2 and nVidia drivers and the 2.6.6 driver from
>>pchdtv.com. It's an Athlon 3000 machine and I still get stuttering when
>>the OSD fades away while watching live TV.
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>Sorry, have not tried to transcode...
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>Out of curiosity, how well does your machine playback HDTV if you disable
>XvMC?  On my 2.8 GHz HT P4, I get MUCH smoother playback with XvMC
>disabled.  I would think that an Athlon 3000 would be powerful enough to
>see the same affect.
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I turned off XvMC and it didn't seem to matter much, the OSD still 
stuttered, maybe a little less. When watching live TV, is the OSD 
display all gray? Mine is, the screen shots I saw on the web site are 
red and blue.