[mythtvnz] Anyone else using a HDHomerun/Mythtv/XBMC combo?

[Nick Rout]

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Jonathan Hoskin
<jonathan.hoskin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Sometimes simply remuxing the file will fix some of those problems.
>> myth creates its own entries for use by ff and rew in the database,
>> but the popcornhour will not use these. Making the transport stream
>> into a program stream may halp. I think the incantation is something
>> like:
>>
>> mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy original.mpg new.mpg
>>
>
> Can you even put the H.264 video of Freeview HD into a MPEG-PS container?
> According to the VLC developers you can't:
> http://www.videolan.org/streaming-features.html
> and
> http://wiki.videolan.org/MPEG-TS#PS

hmmm you have me there, although its hard to say whether those pages
are showing a limitation of the container per se, or a limitation of
vlc's implementation.

My suggestion came from what I have seen on the mythtvusers mailing
list, which may have been dealing with mpeg2 streams in ts/ps
containers

> I do re-muxing with VLC, but for other reasons (replace difficult LATM audio
> codec with straight AAC) but I put it back into a TS file, a-la:
> cvlc $FILE --quiet
> --sout="#transcode{acodec=mp4a,ab=192,channels=2,samplerate=48000}:standard{mux=ts,dst=$FILE.new,access=file}:sout-transcode-soverlay=0"
> vlc://quit
> I use VLC because stable FFMpeg or Mencoder can't do this.
>