[mythtv-users] Recoding in native TS format and Setup with ATSC as
DVB card
Andrew Chung
acchung at techie.com
Thu May 5 07:32:45 UTC 2005
Hi everyone. I just started exploring MythTV so please bear with me if I
ask a question that has already been answered. I've tried Googling and
reading as much as I can but my eyes are starting to bleed!
Is it possible to have MythTV record to a raw .TS file instead of its native
.nuv format? What is the difference between these two file formats? My
goal is to archive shows on a permanent basis and I would prefer to get
either a raw .TS or a pure MPEG-2 from the transport stream.
Also I'm checking the option on the video input to save as .ts instead of
.ps. What does this actually do?
My second question is a setup question. I've been struggling with getting
the Linux system stable and to get my 2 pcHDTV HD-3000 cards working. Took
me a while but those seem to be working fine. When it came to installing
MythTV the online docs were pretty good, except for the part where you add
channels.
Initially I signed up for Zap2It and performed a mythfilldatabase as the
manual instructed. However I was never able to get any channels to tune. A
few days later I figured out that I can do an ATSC tune and I was able to
see all my local OTA channels. At this point however, I had a disconnect
between the guide information and some tunable channels. The guide couldn't
tune, and the tuneable channels had no guide! Tonight I tried taking the
XMLTVIDs from the Zap2It guide. I purged the database and started with a
clean one. I then scanned my OTA channels. After scanning I manually set
the XMLTVID values for each of my channels. Is this the way it works or am
I missing something fundamental here?
Been having fun trying to get this working!
Andy
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