On 20 February 2010 15:55, Andy Walls <[email protected]> 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 had not seen this previously. I am using DeVeDe to make a DVD iso file rather than putting the mpeg file directly on the DVD and this works ok. Following some intensive googling I tried setting the type to 3 and other settings as noted in http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Howto:ivtv_for_dvdauthor with the hope that in DeVeDe I could tell it that it was a DVD compatible mpeg so that it did not need to re-encode it. No luck with this however, DeVeDe fails generating the iso. Colin _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
