[mythtv-users] mpeg4 on Ion ?

Ramon Redondo malinon at gmail.com
Fri Mar 5 21:09:35 UTC 2010


On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Yeechang Lee <ylee at pobox.com> wrote:

> Jim Stichnoth <stichnot at gmail.com> says:
> > I have an ION-ITX-C based frontend, which I believe is the same Atom
> > processor as the Revo 1600. [ . . . ] But if I try to play a
> > similarly transcoded file that originated from a 1080i HDHR
> > recording, there is lots of stuttering and dropped frame messages in
> > the log.
>
> The ION2 will solve this issue with its native Xvid support. In the
> meanwhile, though, this is a limitation that anyone who purchases an
> ION-based box with the mindset that it is the "ideal cheap MythTV
> frontend" ought to be aware of.
>

Since all of my legacy recordings are SD, I suspect there won't be an issue.


Worst case, I COULD convert them to MPEG2 if necessary.

Thanks for the info.
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