[mythtv] PVR 250 & Linux vs Windows PVRs

Scott Beck sbeck at gossamer-threads.com
Wed Nov 12 15:27:23 EST 2003


Derek Atkins wrote:

>Scott Beck <sbeck at gossamer-threads.com> writes:
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>>I've personally had no luck with transcoding the mpeg output by the
>>pvr250 so archiving may prove difficult.
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>Why do you need to transcode the output?  Just archive the mpeg2
>output from the pvr-250.
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Archiving implies cutting commercials and possibly reducing the size by 
either encoding to something like AVI or reencoding to a lower 
bitrate/resolution. Hence trancoding....




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