[mythtv] A prelude to transcoding MPEG2->MPEG2

[Derek Atkins]

"Geoffrey Hausheer" <ou401cru02 at sneakemail.com> writes:

> Note that I have yet to see a PVR250 stream which is DVD compliant.  DVD
> requires either an AC3 or PCM stream to be present, and I'm not aware of
> any way to get such a thing from the PVR250.  I've yet to find an AC3
> encoder which is really compliant (the one that comes with ffmpeg is not
> compatible with my DVD player, and I've had to use commercial encoders in
> Windows to get compliant streams).  Anyhow, that isn't really relevant as
> it has nothing to do with the issue at hand, I just thought I'd mention
> it.

Not quite true..  A DVD can also use MP2 audio, which the PVR will do.
I was able to make a video DVD without any audio transcoding, and
it works just fine in my set-top DVD player.

> .Geoff

-derek

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