On 1/10/06, Ole Andre Schistad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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? :) >
You are not supposed to have this problem. ;) If your programs recorded with the pvr350 are set up to play through the hardware decoder, so will your pvr500 recordings. Works out of the box. Regards, Petter _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
