[mythtv] Anyone working on direct MPEG2 encoding?

[Chris Petersen]

> I'm pretty sure nobody is working on this, and I would really like to
> see this as a feature, as long as the fact that (for the most part) what
> you reffer to as mpeg2 encoding, would become libavcodec supported
> encoding. This would also have the side effect (if i'm not mistaken) of
> adding (with a little effort) support for this to mythtranscode.

The only problem with direct mpeg2 encoding is that it's SLOW...  Even
my dual athlon can't do realtime mpeg2 encoding with tmpgenc, the
fastest encoder that I know of.  But support for other encoding formats
would definitely be cool.

> > woah, ffmpeg supports mpeg2 encoding?!?!  This is incredible news!  I
> > guess I need to figure out how to use it now, since it could very well
> > be WAY better than mpeg2enc and would make nuvexport all the better.
> Chris P., no need for major sarcasm, just because he didn't choose the
> right words, .......!

Not sarcasm.  I've been waiting for this feature for as long as I first
started trying to encode svcd in linux.

-Chris