[vdr] Re: AW: Re: vdr crashes "buffer 100" or "Data stream broken"

[Dennis Noordsij <dennis.noordsij@wiral.com>]

On Monday 14 October 2002 15:44, you wrote:
> >You have to Transcode it... divx is decoded by cpu and encoded to mpeg by
> >cpu, in which format do you want to pass the decoded video to the dvb
> >card?The only formats are mpeg1/2.
>
> In fact I don't see why we need to trancode it as it's a simply another cpu
> hungry task that is absolutly not required to view a divx in other case. I
> mean that a PII 400 can play divx well, but only if it play it directly
> without the need for transcoding it.
>
> The things I want to do is just use the TV output of the DVB card as my
> graphic card does not have a tv output. So to show divx, I need to have a
> VGA monitor next to my TV !

The DVB tv-out is not a direct TV-out, you have to give it MPEG1 or MPEG2 
video, and it will decode it to the TV-out. You can not directly say "show 
this on the TV", it has to be MPEG1/2 video data.

So the only way to use it is to convert divx to MPEG1/2. This means decoding 
the divx, and then re-encoding using MPEG1. This is quite fast, but you need 
a bit more CPU than just for the divx decoding because you also need to 
encode it back to MPEG1.




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