[mythtv-users] Recommendations needed for new FE box

[Stephen Worthington]

On Thu, 26 Jul 2018 13:19:29 -0500, you wrote:

>My cable provider (Comcast, ugh) now uses .ts containers that use H.264, 
>and that works fine.

Comcast would have been using MPEG2 Transport Stream containers before
the change to H.264 for the video.  The old MPEG2 video was always
delivered in a transport stream container on any cable or broadcast
system.  MythTV used to store to .mpg files (which implies a Program
Stream format), when the container was actually a transport stream.
But eventually that was fixed and MythTV now stores to .ts files to
make it clear that they are in transport stream format.  If you still
have any old .mpg files recorded by MythTV, use a program like
mediainfo or ffprobe and you will see that they are actually transport
stream files.

So the only change that Comcast made was to use H.264 video for the
video streams instead of using MPEG2 video.