I recently added a PVR500 to my existing mythtv box, and am hoping there is a way to play back all recordings using the hardware decoder chip on the 350. My primary reason for this is simply that mpeg2 looks much better when output through the HW decoder than when played back in software, although I am also experiencing some problems getting sound when using software playback (complains about my alsa settings).
Since the encoder on the PVR500 should produce an identical mpeg2 stream to that on the PVR350, there should be no reason why it can't be done - only that mythtv may not be coded to actually do things this way out of the box. I expect that there is a flag somewhere in the database which myth uses to determine wether to dump a given file to the PVR350s decoder chip or to software decode it to the framebuffer? If so, then one way of achieving what I want would be to run a periodic equivalent to UPDATE tablename SET flagname='recorded_by_350' where flagname='not_recorded_by_350' or similar .. but maybe there is a more elegant way ? Or am I not supposed to have this particular problem to begin with? :) Anyway, appreciate any help from you guys. Cheers, Ole André _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
