I have been playing around with mencoder and the media option in vomp for a while now. Have hacked test1.sh quite a lot and got all sorts of interesting things happening. I will probably look into converting some of xbmc's plugins to vomp at some point. However, I got to thinking about HD and Vomp.
Could we have an option, maybe flaggable in the config file, that instead of just sending the stream to the mvp, sends it transcoded via a script like test1.sh?
So, for instance, if the channel has only Dpids and no Apids, as all US ATSC now has, then we can Mencoder the stream and convert the audio on the fly, or an HD Only channel could be Mencodered into a format which the Vomp could handle. Similarly, HD recordings could be. (Although the individual VDR files can be sent through the Media option now.)
I'm also in the process of converting all my PAL recordings to NTSC now I'm living in Obamaland. Otherwise I can only hear them. I think someone needs to tell these US chaps that RGB is better than SVideo and miles better than a single yellow video cable. But I suspect that's outside the scope of this forum.
Could we have an option, maybe flaggable in the config file, that instead of just sending the stream to the mvp, sends it transcoded via a script like test1.sh?
So, for instance, if the channel has only Dpids and no Apids, as all US ATSC now has, then we can Mencoder the stream and convert the audio on the fly, or an HD Only channel could be Mencodered into a format which the Vomp could handle. Similarly, HD recordings could be. (Although the individual VDR files can be sent through the Media option now.)
I'm also in the process of converting all my PAL recordings to NTSC now I'm living in Obamaland. Otherwise I can only hear them. I think someone needs to tell these US chaps that RGB is better than SVideo and miles better than a single yellow video cable. But I suspect that's outside the scope of this forum.