Andy Walls wrote:
On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 14:35 +0000, Colin Law wrote:
Hi
My first post here as a newcomer to the field of video capture.
I have installed a Hauppauge pvr-150 in my PC running Ubuntu 9.10. I
wish to use it to convert my stack of video tapes to DVD before my
ageing video recorder dies.
With a bit of googling I learnt that I should install ivtv-utils and
am able to set the input channel to the composite i/p with
v4l2-ctl --set-input=2
So I've wondered about this control:
$ v4l2-ctl -L
[...]
stream_type (menu) : min=0 max=5 default=0 value=0
flags=update
0: MPEG-2 Program Stream
2: MPEG-1 System Stream
3: MPEG-2 DVD-compatible Stream
4: MPEG-1 VCD-compatible Stream
5: MPEG-2 SVCD-compatible Stream
[...]
I suspect, if you want to make actual DVD's playable by a DVD player,
you may wish to set the stream_type=3 before starting the capture.
I don't know for sure, as I have no personal experience.
Yes, I can confirm that using that stream type for recordings produces mpg
files with the VOBUs required for DVD-Video, UNLESS you also have VBI enabled
(which adds the driver's private stream with sliced VBI data). But if you don't
want to capture closed captions or teletext and don't enable VBI (forget the
control for that), you can give the recorded file to a patched version of
dvdauthor and it will be happy. Just be sure the resolution and bit stream are
compatible with DVD standards. You can find out more about the patch for
dvdauthor here:
http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Howto:ivtv_for_dvdauthor
FWIW, this works with recordings from the cx18 driver (for HVR-1600s), too.
HTH,
Helen
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