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> Alright, I just recieved my mediaMVP H3 device. Got it to boot the mvpmc
> firware and config file. I threw together a quick mythTV system (mythbuntu).
> And now I have a few questions for you all.
>
> 1. Live-TV & watching recordings don't work. I had an old TV tuner card
> around, an ATI Wonder VE. I am guessing this isn't working on my mediaMVP
> since the video/audio are being streamed in format other than mpeg2/mp2. Just
> looking for confirmation here. If this is true, I should just got get a
> Hauppauge PVR-250 or PVR-350, right ? All I was doing was trying to test what
> I had before making more investments.
That or transcode the recordings to mpeg2. I don't know for sure it will
work, I have a ATI wonder ve here that I recently moved from a windows machine
to use for converting vhs tapes, and even with transcoding I have been having
serious issues with getting the audio in sync, I never had those issues with
the PVR-150 cards I have nor the ATSC card that I have.
>
> 2. The mythTV frontend piece, that doesn't support the 'Watch video' piece of
> myth does it ? I see that it can play recordings, but what about the DVDs I
> rip to MPEG files ? Only way I see how to do this is via the filesystem
> module. If the filesystem module is my only way to watch videos, is there a
> way to have it start somewhere other than root ? i.e. chroot at /usr/video,
> or have the buttons hotkeys to modules or chrooted FS ?
I believe there is a way to do this, hopefully someone will help.
>
> 3. I have a few TV series on DVD. I ripped those to mpeg files and the
> created
> a PlayAll.m3u referencing the mpegs. But when I do select PlayAll.m3u.. I get
> a playlist & a very small video screen. Anyway to toggle the video to full
> screen ? Kinda the same issue, when I play a video and then hit the back
> button to browes around the FS. The video is playing in the background,
> anyway to toggle that back to the foreground, other than navigate to the
> video file and select it again ?
That means that those videos are mpeg1 320x240 it does that, I have a
transcoding script that will change those to mpeg2 at the same resolution,
it will take some time to convert them (anywhere from the run time of the
video to 1/8 of the run time depending on how fast the machine converting
them is).
The script may also be able to convert the ATI files to mpeg2 but may
not have correct audio sync on them. I believe the problem is that the
ATI cards don't have HW acceleration so if the machine is not quite fast
enough then frames are dropped and each frame dropped causes the sync to
get further off.
Roger
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