[mythtv-users] DVB / deinterlacing setup

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 08:45:21AM +0200, Flemming Frandsen wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Ed Wildgoose wrote:
> 
> > > Well, it would be around 150-200 Mb/s, so I guess I'm going to put in
> > > a Gigabit link between the fileserver and the backend box.
> >
> > DVB is around the same or less than DVD rates.  ie 4-8 mbits, ie less
> > than one megabyte per sec.
> 
> Yes, the pr-channel bandwidth isn't that much, but the TS contains
> more than one channel and the guy I was responding to said that mythtv
> didn't demux, but rather saved the entire TS.
> 
> 
> Now I'm confused, does mythtv demux before recording a DVB channel or
> does it save the entire TS?

It saves a transport stream, but only containing the PIDs you
configured, ie its filtered. In fact the filtering happens in the DVB
hardware at record time.

Hamish
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