[mythtvnz] VLC and VDPAU

[Stephen Worthington]

On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 13:57:45 +1300, you wrote:

>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Nick Rout" <nick.rout at gmail.com>
>To: "MythTV in NZ" <mythtvnz at lists.linuxnut.co.nz>
>Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 1:31 PM
>Subject: Re: [mythtvnz] VLC and VDPAU
>
>
>>> Also I don't think the internal player will play an external UDP stream as the hdhomerun's serve up, for robust live TV.
>
>>No but there is a perfectly good live tv functionality built into mythtv!
>
>Perhaps if you run DVB-S however its not so reliable over DVB-T (nor to the same extent that HD recordings are).  I assume you are 
>still not running HD - so might have limited experience of Live HD reliability?
>
>Incidentally the times I've noted HD LiveTV to crash have often been change over times on the hour, however I've not got around to 
>checking logs.  I did however wonder if they might have something to do with the live recording or other start / stop recording file 
>changes. 

It is unusual to actually use LiveTV to really watch a program.  Most
people seem to just record the program, then watch it while it is
still recording if necessary.  That is completely reliable in my
experience.  I have not had any problems with LiveTV in Mythbuntu
9.10, but I only use it to peek at things rather than running it for
an hour or more.

I am surprised that there are people finding DVB-T less reliable than
DVB-S.  Unless you are trying to play HD recordings across a WiFi
connection (too slow), there should not be any problems now. Certainly
not if it comes off a local hard disk.