Mailing List Archive: Some questions

Some questions

Mar 22, 2003, 10:41 AM

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Thanks for the help to the people that answered my previous post. I do have
a couple more questions please. Can you watch a program as it is being
recorded? Is it possiable to use the Xvid codec? A suggestion for a turner
card that gets good quality and high resolution? I have read that Mythtv
can use a tv turner card that has hardware mpeg compression and also I a
have read that it doesn't??? What I would like to do is use a card that
compreses to Mpeg2 and then compress it to either Xvid or Divx, any
thoughts? I am planing on putting a system together for Mythtv only so I am
trying to get as much advice on the best hardware. One last one, I have
seen a few posts of people talking about putting together a MythTV
distribution, I would really really love to see this. I am linux newbie and
the thought of trying to get all of the differnt pieces together and
configured correctly seems daunting. Anything that would make it eaiser
would be most welcome.

Thanks

David Ferguson

Re: Some questions [ In reply to ]

cedarmckay at mac

Mar 22, 2003, 11:08 AM

Post #2 of 3 (1242 views)

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On Saturday, March 22, 2003, at 09:41 AM, David Ferguson wrote:

>
> Thanks for the help to the people that answered my previous post. I
> do have
> a couple more questions please. Can you watch a program as it is being
> recorded?
yes

> Is it possiable to use the Xvid codec?
not that I know of

> A suggestion for a turner
> card that gets good quality and high resolution?
I like mine: Hauppage Win TV go. Looks good and easy to setup.

> What I would like to do is use a card that
> compreses to Mpeg2 and then compress it to either Xvid or Divx, any
> thoughts?
So far I don't know of a mpeg2 card that works with mythtv. If you have
a powerful enough machine, I personally would stick with software
compression.

best,

Cedar

Re: Some questions [ In reply to ]

jason_james_97 at yahoo

Mar 22, 2003, 5:18 PM

Post #3 of 3 (1249 views)

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--- David Ferguson <DFerguson@pathfire.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the help to the people that answered my
> previous post. I do have
> a couple more questions please. Can you watch a
> program as it is being
> recorded? Is it possiable to use the Xvid codec? A
> suggestion for a turner
> card that gets good quality and high resolution? I
> have read that Mythtv
> can use a tv turner card that has hardware mpeg
> compression and also I a
> have read that it doesn't??? What I would like to
> do is use a card that
> compreses to Mpeg2 and then compress it to either
> Xvid or Divx, any
> thoughts?

Well, if you're a newbie, I recommend sticking to the
hardware that works the best for the most people:
something like a Hauppauge WinTV card. Stick to a well
understood distribution, though I don't know exactly
which one that would be: there are a lot of Myth users
of RedHat, Mandrake, Debian, and Gentoo. RedHat and
Mandrake are the overall simplest.

MPEG2 is not possible (yet). It will be at some point
when the WinTV PVR-250 card is supported, but those
drivers aren't done and it isn't integrated into
MythTV either.

MJPEG (motion JPEG) hardware compression works with
the Matrox Marvel G200-TV and G400-TV. It's trickier
to get it working, but the picture quality is high and
you don't need a fast CPU.

The software codecs used in MythTV are RTJPEG, a
customized Nuppelvideo codec, and MPEG4, which is DIVX
for Linux. Other codecs are not supported.

./jj

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