On 26/09/05, James Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been happily on release .16 for some time now, but having recently > benefitted from the $40 MediaMVP deal at Radioshack, I thought I'd ask > whether the ability to transcode TO mpeg2 has made it's way into the current > features. Looking at the list archives, I'm seeing mixed signals whether > this might be the case or not. It's hard to upgrade what works so well, but > if that's there I'll do it in a heartbeat. (Otherwise, I'm going to have to > debate withmyself the purchase of a PVR-500).
If this is for archival purposes and you need MPEG2, you should be able to do this outside of MythTV if it doesn't (I'm pretty sure it doesn't) offer this. If not capturing 'raw' video, this transcoding can reduce the quality of the video, depending on the bitrate used for the first recording. Like Phill, I have DVB-T cards which drop MPEG2 to disk, and a PVR-350 which captures to MPEG2 with hardware assistance. I've never transcoded MPEG2 to a lower bitrate version, as the PVR-350 is pretty good at recording at a wide range of bitrates. DVB-T though comes 'as it is' so if it's too big for a DVD disk after removing commericals, I normally convert it to an MPEG4 video format such as DivX or XVID. Nick _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
