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

wishbone at h4b.org wishbone at h4b.org
Sun Jul 20 00:27:44 EDT 2003


I'm fine with that for now.  I watch VCDs all the time.  The card has an mpeg1
encoder in it, it can't be that bad.  If nothing else I'd like something I
could play in windows (sorry if that hurt anyone's ears) easily without trying
to load a mpeg2 codec.  Anyway...  would still like to know if it's possible..

joshua

On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 11:18:13PM -0400, Will Dormann wrote:
> 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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