On Thursday 03 March 2005 23:19, Robert Denier wrote: > On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 03:52 +0100, Bernd Müller wrote: > > Hello; > > > > I've heard about some mythtv-users successfully playing back MPEG4 > > video files > > over the ivtv-fb of the Hauppauge PVR 350 using a realtime MPEG2 > > conversion. > > Does anybody know a good starting point where to get more > > information, e.g. > > required converters (mencoder, transcode), scripts etc. > > > > Well I don't have a 350 but from what I can tell if your using > something > called ivtv-fb the last two digits probably stand for framebuffer, so > your video would likely be sent to the the frame buffer on the card. > There shouldn't be any mpeg4- mpeg2 converstion or anything like that, > just the decoding into a rgb or yuv colorspace and the video being > sent > to the card.
IIRC, I believe the issue is that the PVR-350 framebuffer itself is not fast enough to handle full-framerate video that bypasses the MPEG-2; it has decoder. Maybe I'm wrong, though... > I think I vaguely remember you needing a little faster > machine than you might otherwise to handle mpeg4 through one of these. Yes, definitely that, since the -350's framebuffer does not provide hardware 2D scaling (Xv), so the scaling must be done in software. -JAC _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
