[mythtv-users] BBC HD h264 how to handle
Rudy Zijlstra
mythtv at grumpydevil.homelinux.org
Fri Nov 16 01:09:39 UTC 2007
Neil Dunbar wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 November 2007 23:57:49 Michael T. Dean wrote:
>
>> On 11/14/2007 11:38 AM, Neil Dunbar wrote:
>>
>>> ISTR that the BBC H.264 stream has some features which are only supported
>>> by the latest and greatest ffmpeg - probably later than most distros are
>>> using. So it might just me a case of waiting for the upgrade cycle to
>>> take care of it, or building ffmpeg from SVN and being brave.
>>>
>> Myth doesn't use the system-installed ffmpeg libs. It has its own
>> customized versions.
>>
>
> In that case, there's even less likelihood of having PAFF and all the other
> H.264 goodness as part of 0.20.2 - which would mean that BBC HD streaming
> might have to wait a bit longer.
>
> But I don't think that there's anything fundamentally wrong with MythTV such
> that it won't display LiveTV from BBC HD. Probably just a combination of
> slightly older ffmpeg and the fact that decoding HD H.264 is a serious bitch
> on computer load. One day, we might figure out how to use Nvidia's
> proprietary H.264 acceleration extensions in the 7/8 series chips, but I'm
> not holding my breath.
>
>
Take a look at the "ffmeg sync" thread on myth-dev to read up on the
recent status.
Rudy
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