[mythtvnz] Raspberry Pi as a multimedia frontend: first impressions.

[Nick Rout]

On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Jason Haar
<jhaar-ourshack-com at whanau.org> wrote:
>
>> If you want Android you should get a supported Google TV device.
>> I have a Logitech Revue but it doesn't play Mythtv DVB-T HD recordings.
>>
>
> But isn't "mythtv DVB-T HD recordings" just the "raw" transmitted
> signal? i.e. mythtv has nothing to do with the codecs/etc, the TV card
> basically just writes raw to disk and mythtv lies on top of that? I
> think that's true as I've noticed Microsoft Media Player cannot play the
> audio component of some channels that Mythtv as recorded (over dlna) -
> but works really well on others

Mainly right, mythtv does have to separate the correct PIDs out of an
entire multiplex and repackage them in a new MPEG-TS container, but
other than that you are correct, the codecs don't change, just the
container.

If you want to play back on windows, why not install mythfrontend?

>
> Doesn't that really mean the Revue doesn't work with some NZ Freeview
> channels?
>
>
> Jason
>
>
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