[mythtv-users] Using Mpeg-2/Mpeg-1 encoders directly to record a show

[Dhiraj Gaurh]

Cool man. Doesn't matter :) Sorry if it sounded confusing. I guess we 
just have to re-encode from mpeg-4 to mpeg-1, since I guess it's not 
possible to encode in mpeg-1. Somehow I used to think that since mpeg-4 
compresses a lot more than mpeg-1, it uses more CPU , guess I was wrong 
!! Don't know much about mpeg details though !
Dhiraj

Jarod C. Wilson wrote:

> On Jan 12, 2004, at 08:17, Kyle Rose wrote:
>
>> "Jarod C. Wilson" <jcw at wilsonet.com> writes:
>>
>>> On Jan 12, 2004, at 6:08 AM, Dhiraj Gaurh wrote:
>>>
>>>> Wouldn't it be great if we could record a show in Mpeg-2/1 without
>>>> having to record in Mpeg-4 and later convert it to Mpeg-1. That way
>>>> we could more easily make VCD's, right ? Can that be possible any
>>>> time in the future, or is something like that not possible without a
>>>> hardware encoder(that doesn't sound right though).
>>>
>>>
>>> Please feel free to read the MythTV documentation some time. MythTV
>>> has had support for the Hauppauge WinTV PVR-x50 mpeg2-encoder cards
>>> for at least six months now.
>>
>>
>> Please feel free to read the original message more carefully.  It
>> seems pretty clear from "or is something like that not possible
>> without a hardware encoder" that the poster knows it works with cards
>> like the PVR-* series, but that there is no built-in MPEG-1/2
>> *software* encoder in MythTV.
>
>
> It didn't seem that clear to me when I first read it, but I'm usually 
> pretty crabby at 8am, and not very awake. Now that I've re-read the 
> message five times, I understand how you read it (and agree that is 
> probably what the author meant), but at the same time, any message 
> that has to be read that many times to be understood wasn't very well 
> written. Now I'm just lashing out 'cuz I feel somewhat stupid about 
> being an ass, but better clarity in the original message would have 
> been nice. ;-p
>
> My apologies, Dhiraj.
>
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