[mythtv] Re: Adding DVB-T support to MythTV

[Martyn Weber]

On Wednesday 19 March 2003 21:36, Matthew S. Hallacy wrote:

> For my WinTV PVR-250, I use the 'player6' application to write to a
> ringbuffer, then I open that with xine/mplayer/etc. I can
> pause/rewind/fastforward with ease.
>
Does this mean that you have the WinTV PVR-250 working with Linux? If so what 
capabilities does it offer under Linux and what drivers do you use? Are you 
grabbing/creating and MPEG2 file?


The other thing I cant understand, but Im a complete novice to video so thats 
no surprise, is why to encode the mpg stream in a nuv file anyway. Cant 
MythTV be changed to support mpg files directly? A lot of people, myself 
included are trying to export recorded programs to VCD or DVD and are having 
to convert the nuv files to mpg(1 or 2) and recombine the audio and video 
streams (together with the associated sync problems). Wouldn't using mpg file 
format directly simplify this? What am I missing?


Thanks to any who can help me understand this.

Martyn