[mythtv-users] Re: PVR 250 question

Jarod C. Wilson jcw at wilsonet.com
Thu Aug 28 20:00:59 EDT 2003


On Thursday, Aug 28, 2003, at 18:25 US/Pacific, Jarod C. Wilson wrote:

> On Thursday, Dana Hata wrote:
>
>> If you are using a TV card with hardware encoding (PVR 250,350), what
>> should you set the the video compression codec (Rtjpeg?) to for the
>> LiveTV, Default recording profiles.  I guess I figured it would be 
>> none,
>> since the compression is in hardware.
>
> Set the card as a "Hardware MPEG Encoder card" in setup, choose 
> "Hardware MJPEG" for the codec. I would have thought that would be 
> pretty obvious...

As it turns out, I don't know what the hell I'm talking about (at least 
on this issue). It doesn't matter what codec you choose. The PVR-250 
takes care of everything on the encoding front.

> Just out of curiosity, how carefully have you read the documentation 
> that's out there. Tons of what you're asking has already been covered 
> in documentation, and/or the mailing lists.

This still holds...

--Jarod

-- 
Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE

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