Jason Surprise wrote: > I'm new to mythtv. I re-used an older system with the addition of a > PVR-350. It has worked pretty flawlessly, and I'm very impressed with > the quality of the software. > > Since I have a PVR-350 with mpeg2 hardware decoding, I've been trying to > convert my VHS tapes to mpeg2 files to use the Internal player to make > use of the hardware decoder. On another system, I use my DV camera to > capture VHS, then I use transcode to transcode to 352x480 mpeg2. When I > play it in mythvideo using the Internal player, it more or less plays > fine, but occasionally will lock up the system, particularly when doing > rew/ff. I see the following msgs in syslog: > > ... > Why not record from the VHS tapes with your PVR-350? It produces MPEG-2 that it happily plays back... > Since I haven't had one issue with playback of myth recorded mpeg2, I am > wondering if there is a special resolution/bitrate/etc that I need to > follow in order for the internal player to work on misc mpeg2 video? Or > is this something I need to ask the ivtv developers as well? > That would be a more appropriate place than the Myth list. ;)
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