[mythtv-users] Alternate Encoder - lossless/raw format - possible?

Aaron Stewart acs at hourglassone.com
Mon Mar 15 19:10:51 EST 2004


It might be neat to set up a pipe system using this, since the data will
probably only be used once (in the case of an external transcoder, for
example).. I could also see this being useful to output to a separate
LCD display, or for several other "unsupported" uses..

Thoughts?

On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 15:56, Peter Sebastian Masny wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Is it possible to get mythtv to dump captured data unmodified?  In 
> windows, I have previously used the YUY2 format (with huffyuv I think) 
> to dump compressed lossless data.  It filled about 20MB/sec, so about 
> 50GB an hour.  The advantage was total absence of compression 
> artifacts/blurring.  I can see two uses for such an encoding scheme:
> 
> 1) Programs that will be transcoded.
> 2) The tv watching capture buffer.
> 
> Is this planned or even feasable in the context of mythtv?
> 
> Peter
> ps-list at masny.dk
> 
> 
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