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On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 23:20:40 -0500, "Yousuf Khan"
wrote: Tony Hill wrote: You can do the same thing with MythTV, though it requires two TV tuners. For the time being at least I've only got a single TV tuner in my box. I also saw what the cable company had to offer, and it's probably a more economical option, though I detest giving any more money to Rogers than I absolutely have to! : Can you input or output AVI files through the MythTV box? Yup, it can act as a front-end for Mplayer (or Xine?), which is capable of playing pretty much every type of media file for which there is a CODEC available (and it uses the exact same CODECs as Windows/Windows Media Player). It's actually a small add-in called MythVideo, and there really isn't much too it, pretty much just launches an external media player. As for the input side of things, by default it uses either RTjpeg or MPEG-2 to encode files, but there is also a transcode option built in that can output using just about any codec. ------------- Tony Hill hilla underscore 20 at yahoo dot ca |
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Tony Hill wrote:
Yup, it can act as a front-end for Mplayer (or Xine?), which is capable of playing pretty much every type of media file for which there is a CODEC available (and it uses the exact same CODECs as Windows/Windows Media Player). It's actually a small add-in called MythVideo, and there really isn't much too it, pretty much just launches an external media player. So you just download the Windows Codecs and they work right off the bat? As for the input side of things, by default it uses either RTjpeg or MPEG-2 to encode files, but there is also a transcode option built in that can output using just about any codec. Okay, I assume that these two are the least CPU-intensive for real-time encoding. But I guess it won't go straight to Mpeg-4 encoding will it? Yousuf Khan |
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On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 09:48:25 -0500, "Yousuf Khan"
wrote: Tony Hill wrote: Yup, it can act as a front-end for Mplayer (or Xine?), which is capable of playing pretty much every type of media file for which there is a CODEC available (and it uses the exact same CODECs as Windows/Windows Media Player). It's actually a small add-in called MythVideo, and there really isn't much too it, pretty much just launches an external media player. So you just download the Windows Codecs and they work right off the bat? In theory yes, though as usual, theory and practice aren't always the same thing. As for the input side of things, by default it uses either RTjpeg or MPEG-2 to encode files, but there is also a transcode option built in that can output using just about any codec. Okay, I assume that these two are the least CPU-intensive for real-time encoding. But I guess it won't go straight to Mpeg-4 encoding will it? Actually I was a bit off on the above, it uses RTjpeg by default but can also use MPEG4 for straight encoding. RTjpeg doesn't require much CPU power, while MPEG4 requires a fair bit more. Of course, all that depends on it actually getting a video signal from your TV tuner, which unfortunately I have not quite been able to manage yet : I've got a signal in TVTime (a simple TV viewing program), so I know that the tuner works, but some setting or another in MythTV just doesn't seem quite right. I'm going to give it another go this weekend, or possibly just switch over to KnoppMyth (a sort of straight-from-the-box solution, just drop a CD in and let it copy an image over to your hard drive) or some other distribution of Linux. I had been using Mandrake, which got me the first 9/10th of the way there quite well, but that last step has been quite a large one. Perhaps Debian should have been my distribution of choice given that this is what the main MythTV developer uses. Others seem to have had good luck with Gentoo as well. ------------- Tony Hill hilla underscore 20 at yahoo dot ca |
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