[mythtv-users] Re: PVR 250 question

Jarod C. Wilson jcw at wilsonet.com
Thu Aug 28 19:25:33 EDT 2003


On Thursday, Dana Hata wrote:

> If you are using a TV card with hardware encoding (PVR 250,350), what
> should you set the the video compression codec (Rtjpeg?) to for the
> LiveTV, Default recording profiles.  I guess I figured it would be 
> none,
> since the compression is in hardware.

Set the card as a "Hardware MPEG Encoder card" in setup, choose 
"Hardware MJPEG" for the codec. I would have thought that would be 
pretty obvious...

Just out of curiosity, how carefully have you read the documentation 
that's out there. Tons of what you're asking has already been covered 
in documentation, and/or the mailing lists.

> Also,  when I am recording, which recording profile does it use- LiveTV
> or Default?

I believe it uses the default, unless you've specified a profile for 
the recording to use.

--Jarod

-- 
Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE

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