[mythtv-users] Hardware encoding with PVR-350?

[Joseph A. Caputo]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org]On Behalf Of Ellen Spertus
> Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 4:32 PM
> To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> Subject: [mythtv-users] Hardware encoding with PVR-350?
>
>
> I have a working MythTV system (mythtv-suite with mythtv 0.10) and would
> like to use my PVR-350 capture board to encode MPEGs.  I tried enabling
> hardware encoding by setting "TV Settings"->"Recording"->"Default" to
> "Hardware MJPEG", but nothing was recorded.  Specifically, empty
> .nuv files
> were created.  The only other option is MPEG4, which the PVR-350 doesn't
> support.  What am I missing?


Go into the backend setup program, and make sure you choose "Hardware MPEG
card" as your card type.  The codec selection in the frontend recording
setup will be ignored, and you'll have standard MPEG-2 recordings with a
.nuv extension.

-JAC