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

[Steve Hodge]

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
>

Most media players don't handle MPEG-TS (transport stream) which what DVB
recordings are. They generally do ok with MPEG-PS (program stream) which is
the type you get on DVDs.

Cheers,
Steve
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