Colin Brace wrote: > Hi all, > > In a recent thread on fedora-list, I was told it was possible to > adjust the bitrate of the raw mpeg stream which is produced by the > Hauppauge PVR cards. A fellow subscriber wrote: > >> Change bitrate to lower values with ivtvctl. >> ivtvctl -h >> ... >> bitrate_mode =<#> bitrate mode (0 = VBR, 1 = CBR) >> bitrate =<#> bitrate (DVD max = 9.6Mbps) >> bitrate_peak =<#> peak bitrate (must be greater than bitrate) >> ... > > However, it subsequently appeared he is using an older version of > ivtv, 0.7.3, and that this functionality has been moved to v4l2-ctl. > However, perusing v4l2-ctl --help, I don't see any configuration > options for bitrate. Where can it be found? > > $ rpm -q ivtv > ivtv-0.8.2-123.fc6.at > > $ uname -r > 2.6.18-1.2849.fc6 >
Use v4l2-ctl -L to list the options (including bitrates) and set it with v4l2-ctl -c. Example which sets the stream type to "MPEG-2 DVD-compatible Stream". v4l2-ctl -c stream_type=3 Greets Sander _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
