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

[Rene Bartsch <rene@bartschnet.de>]

Am Die, 2002-06-25 um 17.52 schrieb Sebastian Herp:
> 
> ----- 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
> 
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> > 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?
> 

Sorry, I've read to fast.

I'd suggest offline reencoding. Use 'mencoder' (with libavcodec) to
encode to MPEG1 offline.
Copy it to VDR-directory (e.g. /video/[name]/[date]/xxx.vdr) and use
'genindex' (if you want to seek forward/backward).

Should work then.

Rene