<div dir="ltr">On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Nick Rout <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nick.rout@gmail.com">nick.rout@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="Wj3C7c">On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Steve Hodge <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stevehodge@gmail.com" target="_blank">stevehodge@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr"><div>On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 6:57 AM, Nick Rout <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nick.rout@gmail.com" target="_blank">nick.rout@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote">
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<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>One option might be to use MythTV to do the recordings, then run a script to move the recorded file to mythvideo, complete with metadata, and set mplayer as your mythvideo player.<br>
</div></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br>Or just set Myth to transcode the recordings to something more CPU friendly.</div></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div><br>doesn't that assume the transcoding program can decode the stream anyway? and its likely to be pretty cpu intensive task in itself.</div>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br>I don't think it's unreasonable to expect the transcode daemon to be able to handle the stream if MythTV's player can (which it can - just not fast enough).<br><br>Of course it will be CPU intensive, but it doesn't need to be real time. So it doesn't matter if it takes 2 hours to transcode a 1 hour program.<br>
<br>Cheers,<br>Steve<br></div></div><br></div>