On 5/5/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Howard Cokl</b> <<a href="mailto:hojoloco@yahoo.com">hojoloco@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>--- Andrew Chung <<a href="mailto:acchung@techie.com">acchung@techie.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Hi everyone. I just started exploring MythTV so<br>> please bear with me if I<br>> ask a question that has already been answered. I've
<br>> tried Googling and<br>> reading as much as I can but my eyes are starting to<br>> bleed!<br>><br>> Is it possible to have MythTV record to a raw .TS<br>> file instead of its native<br>> .nuv format? What is the difference between these
<br>> two file formats? My<br>> goal is to archive shows on a permanent basis and I<br>> would prefer to get<br>> either a raw .TS or a pure MPEG-2 from the transport<br>> stream.<br>> Also I'm checking the option on the video input to
<br>> save as .ts instead of<br>> .ps. What does this actually do?<br>><br>><br>> My second question is a setup question. I've been<br>> struggling with getting<br>> the Linux system stable and to get my 2 pcHDTV
<br>> HD-3000 cards working. Took<br>> me a while but those seem to be working fine. When<br>> it came to installing<br>> MythTV the online docs were pretty good, except for<br>> the part where you add<br>
> channels.<br>><br>> Initially I signed up for Zap2It and performed a<br>> mythfilldatabase as the<br>> manual instructed. However I was never able to get<br>> any channels to tune. A<br>> few days later I figured out that I can do an ATSC
<br>> tune and I was able to<br>> see all my local OTA channels. At this point<br>> however, I had a disconnect<br>> between the guide information and some tunable<br>> channels. The guide couldn't<br>> tune, and the tuneable channels had no guide!
<br>> Tonight I tried taking the<br>> XMLTVIDs from the Zap2It guide. I purged the<br>> database and started with a<br>> clean one. I then scanned my OTA channels. After<br>> scanning I manually set<br>> the XMLTVID values for each of my channels. Is this
<br>> the way it works or am<br>> I missing something fundamental here?<br>><br>> Been having fun trying to get this working!<br>><br>> Andy</blockquote><div><br>
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Not used the Myth channel scan, but I took the slightly different route
of manually pinning down all the channels with dtvscan /dev/dtv, then
building a profile on zap2it, then manually tweaking the channel
values until everything tuned properly in myth.<br>
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I'm on the CVS from about 5 weeks ago, but still using the HDTV drivers rather than the DVB ones, which I couldn't get to work.<br>
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</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Andy,<br> AFAIK myth does record from ATSC cards in either<br>ts or ps, the nuv extension doesn't affect what the
<br>file actually is.<br>file 2005_20050427220000_20050427230000.nuv<br>2005_20050427220000_20050427230000.nuv: MPEG transport<br>stream data<br><br>I record mine using .ts simply because my box is<br>underpowered to begin with and I think that recording
<br>in .ps involves more processing but a smaller file.<br><br>I think you are on the right track for your channel<br>setup. What I did was have mythtvsetup scan for the<br>ATSC channels in the channel editor, added the xmltvid
<br>from the zap2it channels to the scanned channels and<br>then marked all of the zap2it channels invisible so<br>that only the scanned channels show up in the program<br>guide.<br><br>Howard<br><br><br>_______________________________________________
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