andy at squeakycode
Apr 25, 2008, 1:00 PM
Post #3 of 3
(687 views)
Permalink
|
Chris Pinkham wrote:
> * On Thu Apr 24, 2008 at 09:21:14PM -0500, andy wrote:
>> One of the items on the release notes is:
>> Added the ability to capture MPEG-2 video from the go7007 driver
>
> This is MPEG-2 video, it is still in a NuppelVideo container, so you
> can't output it to your PVR-350 without transcoding it using an external
> application and putting it in a mpeg-ps container that the PVR-350 can
> play.
>
>> In mythtv 0.21, I cannot get it to work. I cannot find anyplace to set
>> it to mpeg2, so I am assuming that's my problem.
>
> I can't remember if I added that setting before or after 0.21, but I
> think it was before. It still is only MPEG-2 video, not a mpeg-ps or
> mpeg-ts container which is what you're thinking of it sounds like.
I had no idea about containers, thank you for the info.
>
> Allowing people to put MPEG-2 video in a .nuv container was an easy
> change. Allowing Myth's 'software' encoder to spit out anything other
> than .nuv is a much much larger patch I'm working on. Eventually you'll
> be able to record straight to mpeg-ps from your ConvertX, but it's slow
> going right now with real life getting in the way of my MythTV coding.
>
I have done C a while ago, I do delphi, sql, perl, php in the real world
-- is there anything I can do to help? (It may slow you down to hand
hold me a bit, but if there is anything I can help with, I'm willing)
>> In mythtv-setup, I added the device (listed as MPEG-4 plextor convertx).
>> In mythfrontend I go into the recording profiles and select that device.
>> There is a combo for selecting the encoding but I cannot change it
>> from MPEG-4.
>
> This setting was not uncommented prior to 0.21 according to my svn-fixes
> checkout. If you want to try it, you can edit
> libs/libmythtv/recordingprofile.cpp and goto line 863 and uncomment the
> following:
>
> codecName->addSelection("MPEG-2");
>
>> (I really need it in mpeg-2 because I have a low powered pc and I use a
>> PVR-350 for tv-out. And it only support mpeg-2.)
>
> You'll still need to transcode/remux from .nuv to .mpg even if you use
> this setting, but it's much quicker and easier to remux than it is to
> reencode the video. That's one of the reasons I added this since a few
> people wanted it and it was simple to allow.
>
> --
> Chris
Yeah, I was worried about transcodeing mpeg4 -> 2 on my low powered pc,
but this sounds a lot better.
Thank you much for your work on this, I appreciate it.
-Andy
_______________________________________________
mythtv-dev mailing list
mythtv-dev [at] mythtv
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev
|
