media portal and xbmc (1 Viewer)

[Anonymous]

Until MPlayer can do the dvr-ms files it is probably not going to happen. But if you use media portal instead of XP MCE then you will have supported file formats. For the dvr-ms files the easiest way would be to write a service that uses direct capture to open, decode, resave the dvr-ms as another format like mpeg2 or DivX.

I am using media portal and xbmc, now I use other software to convert to file that xbmc can read. That is really not convenient. Would you please give more detail on how to convert the file directly during recording by media portal? What is the average cpu usage for that? Thanks

Btw, the dvr-ms support has been added to the mplayer for serveral monthes, however, the new xbmc(03/08/05) still cann't play dvr-ms

 

[sporktastic]

How are you getting files in the dvr-ms format from media portal? If you have a software card you might it selected as the codec for your software card to use for encoding the file, if so you can just change that to another codec.

 

[Anonymous]

Mine is hardware encoding card(avermedia 1500)

 

[sporktastic]

So that is producing the mpeg2 files not dvr-ms. I have a software card right now, it gives me the option to select the codec to which I save my files, but the quality sucks. When I replace it with the Hauppage 500MCE I believe all I will get will be mpeg2, which is one of the reasons I want to make the plugin. Since I am going to give the user the ability to set the schedule I could also add the option to just monitor all the time for completed files and start the conversion. It would still take time to convert, and I would have to update the recorded tv database to then point to the new file. I am just starting the plugin now, so I am not sure when I will be done. Until then I think you are stuck with the mpeg2 files and manually converting them to save space.

 

[sporktastic]

xbmc should be able to read your mpeg2 files without conversion.

 

[sporktastic]

I was just looking through the source and it appears that there is already a transcoding library as part of core that will convert dvr-ms to mpeg on the fly, not sure how it is implemented or how to use the feature, but it looks like it is there already.