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

[Nick Rout]

On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 10:50 PM, Steve Hodge <stevehodge at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Probably easy to change with a mythtv job. I don't think mythtv will care.