[mythtv-users] media mvp

[Nick Rout]

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Roger Heflin <rogerheflin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Kevin Robbins wrote:
>> Once again, awesome feedback! This particular "frontend" is intended to go
>> in my  3 year olds room  and needs to be able to do videos  and pre recorded
>> programs  with ease. Now I guess I am leaning towards the apple TV again to
>> have an actual frontend without network boot, that confuses the crap outta
>> me.
>>
>>
>
> The network boot is the hardest part, once you get it to work, it just works so
> long as you don't go changing things around on the device booting it.
>
> The VLC stuff is invisible once it is setup and working and the mvpmc
> automatically uses it when something is viewed from the filebrowser that does
> not have a mp3 or mpg extension.

When you say invisible, what sort of performance hit does VLC's
transcoding have on the backend performance. I am not sure I have
followed this right, but I am guessing VLC is doing real time
transcoding.