[mythtv-users] Transcoding

[David Greaves]

Paulin wrote:
> I've been recently playing around with transcoders and got something
> working for reformatting HD so my frontend can handle it.  
> 
> Now I'm curious if there is a way to have the transcoder run as the
> stream is read in.  
> 
> For example
>     Video card -> mpeg2 stream -> transcode -> write to file

Unless you're transcoding more quickly than real-time then the backlog of data
in the stream will need to go somewhere; typically to disk...

David