quintesse at palacio-cristal
Jun 30, 2003, 3:14 AM
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RE: MythTV File Formats and playing via the HauppaugePVR-350
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces [at] snowman
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces [at] snowman] On Behalf Of Kevin
> Sent: maandag 30 juni 2003 5:05
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: [mythtv-users] MythTV File Formats and playing via
> the HauppaugePVR-350
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>
> Okay, I now have MythTV running (sortof) on my VIA
> M10000 running Mandrake
> 9.1 and using a Hauppauge PVR-350 with the ivtv drivers. I am able to
> capture something from the PVR-350 via MythTV although it is
> just noise
> right now. The problem I am having now is playing the video
> back to help in
> my diagnostics. When I try to play the recording back through
> MythTV I get
> the message "Couldn't find Xv support". After doing lots of
> reading here
> and at viarena I have a few questions on how MythTV
> interfaces to the PVR-350.
>
> 1. When MythTV makes the recordings it uses the NUV
> (modified Nupplevideo)
> file type. My understanding was that if I was using a
> hardware encoder such
> as the PVR-350 that it would record directly to MPEG-2 format
> (eg. I can do
> a "cat /dev/video0 >something.mpg). I do have the hardware
> option selected
> everywhere. Does MythTV still convert to the NUV format?
No, it is just the plain MPEG directly from the hardware with a .nuv
extension. I have no idea if .nuv is mult-format like .avi where you
can't know what kind of encoding is used until you look inside or if it
was just easier to implement this way.
>
> 2. Is there a way that MythTV can play out using the
> PVR-350 hardware
> decoder (including the menus and such) so that I do not have
> to use the VIA
> decoder?
No, not yet anyway. I guess there will be people working on it somewhere
in the world, but I have no idea what the status would be.
>
> 3. I am guessing the answer to #2 is no so what do I
> have to do to get Xv
> Extensions working on my setup with the VIA hardware decoder
> and would it
> work anyway given #1 above? Please point me to a more
> appropriate list if
> necessary (There is currently lots of discussion on viarena
> regarding using
> the hardware decoder on the VIA but I have a feeling that is
> not via the Xv
> Extensions. I will be posting something there regarding this specific
> question though).
At this moment the only thing you can do is get XFree86 from CVS (or a
recent source tar ball) and compile and install it. That version has
support for the VIA chipset.
>
> 4. It looks as though a number of people on this list
> are using the
> PVR-350. Are any of you running MythTV under Mandrake 9.1 on
> a VIA M10000
> (a stretch I know :-)? If so, did you encounter these
> problems and find
> solutions?
I'm using a PVR-250 and have got it all running finally (although
playback of the MPEG streams is still too much for my current system
(also a M-10000)).
>
> Any help and/or pointers would be appreciated. Thanks.
Hope this helps a bit.
Cheers,
-Tako
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