[mythtv-users] imported nuv choppy and no audio

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Tue Nov 15 01:25:10 EST 2005


On 11/15/05 00:39, Paul Fielding wrote:

> Further to my last message, I'm starting to suspect that the problem 
> may be in formats and horsepower.   The new box that I'm importing to 
> is a HushPC SP13000 MB.   Could it be that the transcoded nuv files 
> I'm importing are, since they've been transcoded, in a format that the 
> PVR 350 cannot use hardware playback for?   I've fixed the audio now 
> (I had a mixer setting set bad).  This tells me that the PVR card is 
> not doing the decoding (?)

Install John Harvey's ivtvdev X driver for the PVR-350.

Mike

>  
> The possible downside to this is that I'm suspecting that the SP13000 
> is not powerful enough to munge out the video if it doesn't have 
> hardware decoding to work with.   Could that really be the case?  I 
> was under the impression that a ~1Ghz box should be able to do regular 
> playback without much difficulty.... *shrug*....
>  
> paul
>  
>
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     *From:* Paul Fielding <mailto:paul at fielding.ca>
>     *To:* Discussion about mythtv <mailto:mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
>     *Sent:* Monday, November 14, 2005 10:11 PM
>     *Subject:* [mythtv-users] imported nuv choppy and no audio
>
>     So after setting up a new mythtv box, I wanted to import a bunch
>     of recordings from another box.  I used nuvexport to export the
>     nuv files with sql database entries, copied them to the new
>     mythtv, and ran (as root) mysql mythconverg <filename.sql>.
>      
>     The recordings appear in the database and I can play the files. 
>     However, are *extremely* choppy and have no audio.
>      
>     The old mythtv box did have auto-transcoding set to reduce the
>     filesize of the recordings to roughly 1GB, while on the new box I
>     haven't touched any transcoding settings yet.   I'm wondering if
>     this is having an effect, even though I'm not sure why.
>      
>     Any ideas?
>      
>     regards,
>      
>     Paul
>
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