On Fri, 25 Aug 2006, David Highley wrote: > First, thank you very much for the respones and helpful information.
You're welcome. Good to know the words aren't going un-read ;) > As it turns out, ffmeg does have an option: > -maxrate bitrate > > But the nuvexport Perl scripts do not provide an option for limiting the > bit rate. Should be trivial to edit a script to put an option or two in for specifying the rate. > If I knew a shorter A to B route I would take it. I'm about 18 months > into this personal video recording adventure. It took 6 months to get > the cards working the first time before kernel and driver updates broke > everything... Oh, there is a shorter way. Doesn't involve linux though. But then neither does it involve virii-inc (aka windoze). > > Which card is this? A WinTV or similar Bt8x8 card? > > WinTV card from ATI. Ok - that'd be a Brooktree 878 or similar (I know Hauppauge used the Bt878 in the last one of their cards I dabbled with eons ago). Haven't done much recording of TV myself since 1) other than an occasional show on PBS there's nothing worth watching and 2) I have an external ATSC receiver with a ieee1394 port - get the transport stream directly (much like a PCHDTV card but more convenient ;)). > > I saw mention of a HD5500 recently. > > Replacement for the HD3000 which is no longer available. And of course the usual driver growth/development pains to go thru. Nice thing I noticed about the 5500 is that it's a universal PCI card and can run in either 3.3 or 5v PCI slots. Just in time for PCI slots to be slowly fading away in favor of PCI-Express - sigh. > It seems to be the best of the 3 choices for nuvexport; ffmpeg, > transcode, mencoder. Actually from ffmpeg you should be able to get 'yuv4mpeg' output and that can be fed into a mjpegtools pipeline. And that, I think, would be a Good Thing. Good Luck with the PVR efforts Cheers, Steven Schultz ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Mjpeg-users mailing list Mjpeg-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mjpeg-users