[mythtv-users] Re: How to transcode MPEG2 stream_type 0 (PS) to 14 (DVD S2)?

Chris Delis cedelis at uillinois.edu
Fri Nov 21 11:25:43 EST 2003


I just love replying to my own posts :-)



> I'm not at my home pc, so I can't test this, but... 
> 
> Is it possible to use mythtv transcode (from within mythfrontend) to do this? 

No.


I realize that one can use 'transcode' to do this, but this can take approx
4 hours CPU time for every hour of playtime.  I was hoping there would be
a simpler way, but AFAIK there isn't.  

--Chris



> 
> 
> > 
> > Hello All, 
> > 
> > I found the following excellent posts in the archive and have successfully 
> > used this method to burn movies encoded with my PVR350 to DVD: 
> > 
> >
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/perl/mailarc/gforum.cgi?post=88904;search_string=dvd%20burn;guest=1580697&t=search_engine
> 
> > 
> > I have set the stream_type to 14 in mythtv (DVD S2) and all is well. 
> > However, I have a few old recordings which were set to stream_type 0 
> > (PS) and am having trouble getting avidemux2 to read the audio. 
> > 
> > Does anyone know an easy way to transcode these videos to stream_type 14? 
> > 
> > Thanks! 
> > Chris 


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