Russell Treleaven wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of >> Boleslaw Ciesielski >> Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 5:53 PM >> To: User discussion about IVTV >> Subject: Re: [ivtv-users] Converting FROM mpeg2 using 350's >> onboard decoding >> Darren Wilkinson wrote: >>> I'm considering buying the Hauppauge 350 to use as not only as a >>> capture >>> card but mainly to use the onboard mpeg2 decoder to speed >> up transcoding >>> 720x576 "pal" recorded dvb and dvd streams to xvid. >> This is not possible. The hw decoder is tied to the video-out >> only and >> not accessible as "decoding engine". >> >> Bolek >> > Is that a hardware limitation or a firmware/software limitation? > If there's any way for the software to know for sure which frame number is being shown then it's a software issue as the data sent the the video4linux device could be "paused" while the encoding catches up.
Even if that is not possible so long as we know which decoded frame is the first frame of a stream then a few GOPs could be decoded at a time via v4l and held in a memory buffer. Xvid could encode from there. _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
