Still no s/w-card support? (1 Viewer)

[isenberg]

MediaPortal Version: tvengine3-01-18-2007--20-13
Windows Version: Windows 2003
CPU Type: AMD Athlon64 3200+
1. TV Card: LifeView FlyDVB-T Duo
1. TV Card Type: Hybride
1. TV Card Driver: BDA Driver 2.11

My Card doesn't find any analog channels. As I understood, the today's version of tvengine supports s/w encoding cards. At channel scanning, I found the following lines in the error.log:

18.01.2007 20:48:37 Exception   :System.Exception: No audio compressor filter found
   bei TvLibrary.Implementations.Analog.TvCardAnalogBase.BuildGraph()
18.01.2007 20:48:37 Exception   :No audio compressor filter found
18.01.2007 20:48:37   site      :Void BuildGraph()
18.01.2007 20:48:37   source    :TVLibrary
18.01.2007 20:48:37   stacktrace:   bei TvLibrary.Implementations.Analog.TvCardAnalogBase.BuildGraph()

 

[Maschine]

You still need to install an MPEG2 encoder software (same as with the classic engine). PowerProducer or WinDVR should work for example.

 

[sand]

Is it possible to use ffdshow mpeg2 encoder or will it be ?

sand

 

[Maschine]

Hmm, don't know... Did you try it?

Would be nice to get some more information about this encoder: how stable is it, how fast...

 

[sand]

ffdshow encoder

ok, here's some info about ffdshow encoder.

ffdshow is open source (http://ffdshow.sourceforge.net/tikiwiki/tiki-view_articles.php)
and supports decompressing bunch of video and audio codecs.

But you also have option to enable all sorts of different codecs for encoding (I would send you screen but I don't know how to post it on forum, I can mail it somewhere if you want).
For example you have MPEG2, XVID, divx3, MSMPEG4v2 and other options.

Sometimes I used it to record TV program (coming from analog tv card). Speed heavily depends settings that you choose for selected codec (motion estimation, quantization...).

On barton 2500+ (1833MHz) it uses about 50-70% of CPU when storing tv signal in avi file at 5Mbs (720*576).
Oh, quality of picture is excellent (seems to me anyway, I reencode recorded tv show later in xvid; recording directly using xvid codec is causing from drops so I stick with mpeg)

Best of all it's free to use and download.

I you need any additional info I'm here.

sand

 

[Doron]

sand, are you saying you did use ffdshow to record from sotware card in MediaPortal?