Roger Heflin wrote: > stuart wrote: ... >> All interesting ideas, let's focus on the remote control from the >> mythtv server (back end). We have been toying with ideas to make >> mvpmc a better mythtv client. The most troublesome handicap centers >> on the mvpmc inabilities to play back HD videos and any video with AC3 >> sound. >> >> There are 2 approaches to get around this. >> >> We can transcode everything mythtv records to SD video quality and >> stereo sound. But there isn't a good way to keep the original HD >> recording. And there doesn't appear a way to offer up 2 versions (HD >> and SD) of a recording even if we keep both. > > I would guess with some knowledge of how to add/delete things to > the myth server it would be possible to copy and add a separate > entry for the hd entry after you have trancoded it, I don't have > the knowledge right now of how to easily read out, and add an entry > for either the transcoded file or the original file, though it would > not seem that hard to create an script/executable that given an > original mythtv file created a new entry for a new file with xxx_sd.mpg > that slightly modified the title. > > Right now I just put the converted SD version in place of the HD file and > myth picks it up correctly as I don't typically ever watch the HD > versions, right now I don't delete the HD files (for a while) in case I > need to debug a conversion issue. > > > Roger
Have you looked into this? I am not the person to ask, but I think you need to change myth code to change it's behavior w.r.t. saving original and transcoded files. I have been wanting to develop mythtv code, but I don't want to risk running the SVN version on my mythtv box. If you are going to the extent of changing the mythtv code, why not look into autonomously detecting different types of clients (i.e. the mvpmc) and route the video through a transcoding process (i.e. VLC) if necessary. I was hoping that we could use the myth plug in approach (like mythweb) to control the mvpmc (hence the original "web remote" discussion), fetching the proper file (by accessing mysql), and deciding if it needed transcoding (using VLC). ...thought? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Mvpmc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mvpmc-users mvpmc wiki: http://mvpmc.wikispaces.com/
