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

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