[mythtv-users] transcoding

nate s nate.strickland at gmail.com
Mon Nov 29 06:20:36 UTC 2004


mpeg4, AFAIK


On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 18:46:51 -0500, Tim Sailer <tps at buoy.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 07:02:05AM +1000, James Lever wrote:
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> > Hi Tim,
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> > On 29 Nov 2004, at 6:05 AM, Tim Sailer wrote:
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> > >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.
> 
> Right. I thought the internal transcoding was to either mpeg1 or mpeg2.
> If it's not, what is it?
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> Tim
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