transcoding mpeg2 -> mpeg2 (was: RE: [mythtv] DVB, (new) recording profiles, and transcoding)

Wed Oct 8 22:38:06 EDT 2003

On Wednesday 08 October 2003 21:00, Mike Wilcox wrote:
> 
>  From what I've read, the MPEG stream put out by the DVB cards is known 
> as PVA, and has timestamp headers to allow the Audio & video to be 
> synchronised, and for the synchronisation to keep working even after 
> some drop-out on one or both streams.
> 
> My experience is that the MPEG2 decoder in Myth doesn't quite keep A and 
> V in sync (and turning the experimental A/V sync to ON makes it worse).

That's because "Experimental A/V sync" option has to do with syncing the video 
output with the refresh cycle on an Nvidia video card.  It has absolutely 
nothing to do with decoding, AFAIK.

-JAC