[mythtv-users] transcoding

James Lever j at jamver.id.au
Sun Nov 28 21:02:05 UTC 2004


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Hi Tim,

On 29 Nov 2004, at 6:05 AM, Tim Sailer wrote:

> I have been playing around with the mvpmc stuff for the MediaMVP, and
> have noticed something. Some recorded shows don't seem to play on the
> MVP. I ran 'file' on the different files. The raw files (I have a
> PVR-250) show up as "MPEG system stream data". The files that are
> transcoded from within MythTV are simply "data", and the MVP can't
> play these.

 From what I understand of the MediaMVP and other (cheaper) devices like 
it, they are custom systems which extremely small CPU capabilities with 
a hardware MPEG (1/2) decoder chip.  This means that if you do any 
transcoding, you must be transcoding to MPEG (1/2) format otherwise you 
will not be able to playback on these machines.

HTH,
James
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