[mythtv] Newbie questions about mpeg2->mpeg2 transcode.

J. Donavan Stanley jdonavan at jdonavan.net
Fri May 21 18:20:58 EDT 2004


Geoffrey Hausheer wrote:

>On Fri, 21 May 2004 10:02:32 -0400, "Britt Houser" said:
>  
>
>>Hey,
>>
>>I have a couple newbie questions about getting mpeg2->mpeg2 to encode.
>> I was using the following thread as reference.
>>
>>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/18050?search_string=mpeg2%20-%3E%20mpeg2;#18050
>>    
>>
>
>You probably want to look at the documention on transcoding here:
>http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-21.html#ss21.13
>and
>http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO.html#toc21.1
>
>I am not sure you understand what the transcoder is for and how to use
>it.
>  
>

I'm not sure you understand what he's talking about.

The MPEG2 to MPEG2 transcoding isn't quite ready for prime time hence 
the database trick to enable it.   It doesn't work ATM and AFAIK nobody 
is currently working on it.


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