I see this email list suffers from replys going to people and not back the
the list like it should, bad email list administrator. :(
Thanks Richard. I am testing vlc right now. Not too happy with it so far.
My video files are very hight quality so in MPEG2 format the bandwidth is
spiked to the limit. The MVP box only has a 100Mb ether port. After about 30
min of watching the video starts to get very choppy and then after a bit
more the video and auto are totally out of sync. I am looking at the
settings for VLC to chop the video resolution down to TV size. My MVP box is
connected to a TV so the high quality is not needed. I am hopeful this will
help.
Another thing I don't like about VLC and I hope someone can tell me how to
change this. The only way I can watch videos is to exit from the MythTV
menu, because it report 0 video files, and go to the File System menu and
navigate to the /mythtv/videos/ directory then into the directory where my
videos are and then to scroll down a very long list to find the file I want
to watch.
My video collection is located on many file servers. My MythTV server mounts
the directories as NFS shares. It then shares /mythtv/videos/ as a Samba
share. In the /mythtv/videos/ are symbolic links to the many mount points.
When a Windows system views the share it looks like directories that contain
video files, but when the mvpmc does a mount.cifs on that Samba share it
sees the symbolic links that point to locations I did not intend to have
mounted on the MVP box. So my config file looks like this for mounting...
mkdir /mnt
mkdir /mnt/server0
mkdir /mnt/server1
mkdir /mnt/server2
mkdir /mnt/server3
mkdir /mnt/server4
mkdir /mnt/server5
mkdir /mnt/server6
mkdir /mnt/server7
mkdir /mnt/server8
mkdir /mythtv/
mkdir /mythtv/videos
# and mount it (linux/windows)
/etc/nfsmount.sh 192.168.0.1:/var/videos /mnt/server0/
/etc/nfsmount.sh 192.168.0.2:/var/videos /mnt/server2/
/etc/nfsmount.sh 192.168.0.3:/var/videos /mnt/server3/
/etc/nfsmount.sh 192.168.0.4:/var/videos /mnt/server4/
/etc/nfsmount.sh 192.168.0.5:/var/videos /mnt/server5/
/etc/nfsmount.sh 192.168.0.6:/var/videos /mnt/server6/
/etc/nfsmount.sh 192.168.0.7:/var/videos /mnt/server7/
/etc/nfsmount.sh 192.168.0.8:/var/videos /mnt/server8/
mount.cifs //192.168.0.10/mythtv/videos /mythtv/videos/ -o
user=myth,password=mypw;
This works fine for VLC not needing a play list but it kind of sucks not
being able to see the /mythtv/videos/ directory in the MythTV menu and
having to dig through the file system to find some thing.
With VLC requiring my to find the video by digging in the File system I
found that I also have to dig through all the poster JPG files as well. If I
can get VLC to present a video menu in the MythTV section of mvpmc then this
will not be a problem but as it is now not only do I have to look in a long
list of hundreds of videos but I first have to get past all of the poster
files also.
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 6:40 PM, Richard Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hey Royce, don't rule out vlc, it works really great. VLC is suited over
> mencoder because it handles streams well. And with the vlc option you can
> leave your videos as Xvid.
>
> The MediaMVP is not powerful enough to decode Xvid, it can only decode
> MPEG2 because of dedicated decoder hardware, the CPU on the box is too weak
> to decode the video itself, so having VLC transcode your Xvids to MPEG2 on
> the fly works great.
>
> Here is the link on how to set this up:
> http://mvpmc.wikispaces.com/vlc
>
> - Richard
>
> On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 6:52 PM, Royce Souther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > So I see that the mvpmc does not support Xvid. :(
> >
> > The MediaMVP I have is model 86019.
> >
> > Converting my very large video collection to MPEG2 is not an option. So
> > I am reading about on the fly transcoding with VLC and mencoder. I love
> > mencoder and would like to use it over VLC.
> >
> > I am reading about how some people are streaming the videos through
> > HTTP. That sounds like a great idea. I have read a few posts on this and it
> > sounds like people are getting it to work but I have not found any sites or
> > posts that talk about how to set it up.
> >
> > Anyone have a link for me?
> >
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