[mythtv-users] MPEG1 setting on PVR-250?!?

Will Dormann wd at pobox.com
Sun Jul 20 00:18:13 EDT 2003


At 06:47 PM 7/19/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>I'd like my pvr-250 to encode and output to a file mpeg1 and not mpeg2.  Is
>there a way to do this with the ivtv drivers?  I tried test_ioctl -c
>stream_type=2, and the file it outputs appears to be mpeg1 but the image is
>very messed up.  Are there other special control settings I need to do?  I
>don't really want real high quality for my recordings and I would like to be
>able to burn them straight to VCD (not SVCD).  Just FYI standard mpeg2 works
>file.


Don't have an answer for you, but I can say that recording directly to
VCD-compliant MPEG1 would probably be a bad idea.   The quality will likely
be quite horrible.

You'd be much better off recording to MPEG2 and transcoding to VCD.

-WD


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