[vdr] Re: DVIX for VDR with slow CPU's

["Sebastian Herp" <newsletter@scytheman.net>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rene Bartsch" <rene@bartschnet.de>
To: <vdr@linuxtv.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 5:20 PM
Subject: [vdr] Re: DVIX for VDR with slow CPU's


> Am Die, 2002-06-25 um 11.22 schrieb Bernd Hoose:
> > Hello, for the people with slow and cool CPU's.
> > My Question:
> > MPlayer convert the divx files on the fly to mpeg for VDR, right?
> > is it possible to write this to an temp file, so we start the converting
> > in the background and after a little time we start replay from vdr.
> > mayby with an timeline in vdr replay, showing playtime, converting
> > status and whole playtime.
> > after replay an question "delete converted video" or so, to have the
> > chance to play it again.
> >
> > this would help to stay away from noisy vdrs in the livingroom.
> >
>
> The best solution would be to reencode offline. Just record as usual and
> run a script encoding to DivX with mencoder after recording and then
> deleting the VDR-files (If I remind right there are commands what to do
> before and after recording in VDR, so you could start your script after
> a recording (and you can use 3-pass-encoding).
>
> Rene
>

big misunderstanding here. Bernds idea is to convert divx-files to
mpeg-files which then could be played by vdr without the need of a fast cpu.
nothing about divx-encoding here ;-) ...

would be an interesting feature (Bernds' one). Should be possible if the
divx-file is converted via mencoder into a directory readable by vdr (in
recordings-menu) ... should behave just like timeshifting does. Can someone
more experienced could try this with his vdr?

MfG,
Sebastian