[mythtv-users] MythArchive has been added to svn - Please test
Steven Adeff
adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com
Sat May 6 08:11:57 EDT 2006
On 5/6/06, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 05/05/2006 02:58 PM, Cory Papenfuss wrote:
> >> Its a good idea in principle but there are some limitations with it. I'm
> >> sure it could be done though.
> >>
> >> The video file on a DVD , has I know you already know, have been bashed
> >> about a bit and often aren't really the same as the original file. ...
> > Ah... hadn't thought of that. I don't have any experience with
> > regular ol' ivtv captures with a single mp2 audio stream. I'd guess
> > that's the majority of users. In the U.S. at least digital TV is stymied
> > by everyone wanting to encrypt, protect, and make a buck off from it, so
> > everything is either OTO HD, or captured from CVBS.
> >
> > It's getting complicated already, but maybe full vs. partial in
> > the simple cases? Actually, the DVD stream can have all those other
> > things in it as well, no? So long as it's got a compliant video stream
> > size (e.g. 720x480), ac3 audio, and NAV packets, it's acceptable, no?
>
> I think he was referring more to the fact that STB-playable DVD creation
> means that multiple MPEG program streams are assembled into a "suitable
> DVD filesystem." During this process, the MPEG's are stuck
> together/broken apart into VOB file(s) with a maximum size of 1GB each
> (most will be exactly 1GB). That may mean that a single VOB file
> contains more than one Myth recording (and quite likely not a whole
> number, either).
>
> So, to get a specific recording off a STB-playable DVD, you'd have to
> break it out of its container (for a second time, since the same was
> true for putting it into the VOB). So it's not the same file you
> originally recorded. Basically, it's been VOBified. :)
why would more than one recording need to be in a VOB file?
--
Steve
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