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
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