[mythtv-users] SDI with embedded audio and MythTV

[Nick Rout]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 6:08 AM, Matt Christy <mchristy at mindtv.org> wrote:
>>Sounds like you're trying to cram a square peg in a round hole.  Myth
> is
>>very much designed to work recording broadcast TV with good schedule
>>information.  If you're just trying to dump video to MPEG-2, you should
>>really just use tools like mencoder, ffmpeg, or the like.  And if
> you're
>>having trouble finding cards that work with Linux, then Linux probably
> isn't
>>your best choice of an OS for your project.
>>
>>Kevin
>
> You don't need to use EPG. What was attractive about myth was its
> web-based recording capabilities, which is similar to an analog
> appliance we currently use. We're not going to use EPG, we'd schedule
> manual recordings as needed. I'm not trying to "just dump mpeg-2 files",
> I'm trying to schedule recordings at x time and have it record the
> program to mpeg-2 files for broadcast at a later time. It would be
> different if we were taking the feed 24/7 and I wanted to dump it to a
> file. Times change, feeds change, etc.
>
> I looked into mencoder and ffmpeg, but the problem is we don't have the
> time or resource to develop the front and back ends in a way to automate
> these tasks... again which is why Myth looked attractive.
>
> Thanks for your insight.. it was helpful.
>

Just a point (and interesting to see a commercial company favouring
mythtv, good on you).

I don't know much about SDI, but is the video and audio already a
mpeg2 stream (perhaps delivered over SDI), if not you will need to be
encoding it either in hardware or software.