Video Encoding


twobit

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How's this little beast going to cope if I plug a TV Tuner into it and run Myth on it? Think it'll handle encoding HD?
I wouldn't mind setting it up to record and encode video, then have a task to copy the files to my NAS where I can watch stuff on the big screen. I don't have a spare box to set up for Myth at the moment and figured if i could set up my pandora to do it... it might save me buying another device or building a box up for that.

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Twobit
 
What's the processor on your NAS? Have you also considered doing video encoding/transcoding there?

Edit: Whoa-time for sleep. You said NAS, I thought you said STB (as in multimedia PC). NAS boxes don't typically need huge CPUs.
 
twobit said:
Think it'll handle encoding HD?
Yeah. It might be slow, but encoding isn't usually a real-time task unless you're a TV station, is it?

Ah, you mean as a DVR. Yeah, that would be... Well, since the hardware can just barely decode with 720p with all hardware acceleration, I doubt it can encode more than 480 lines in real-time.
I wonder aloud if there are USB hardware encoders for this.
 
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lulzfish said:
twobit said:
Think it'll handle encoding HD?
Yeah. It might be slow, but encoding isn't usually a real-time task unless you're a TV station, is it?

Ah, you mean as a DVR. Yeah, that would be... Well, since the hardware can just barely decode with 720p with all hardware acceleration, I doubt it can encode more than 480 lines in real-time.
I wonder aloud if there are USB hardware encoders for this.
It can decode 720p with no problem, just barely with h264 right now, apparently. There are a lot of codecs that don't get the same compression level as h264 that use a lot less CPU power, even at equivalent quality: they just use more disk space. DivX or XviD can easily encode high resolutions at VBR constant quality. You end up with a file twice as big as h264 encoding, but it's still doable.
 
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lulzfish said:
I wonder aloud if there are USB hardware encoders for this.
USB tuner with hardware encoder.
Unfortunately it is too bulky for portable use, and requires external power. If you plan on using the pandora in a relatively stationary fashion while recording, it may work. (I have no idea on the linux driver support.)
 
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