[mythtv-users] More FC2 MythTV problems...

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Sat Sep 4 02:31:08 EDT 2004


On 09/04/2004 01:39 AM, 1canuck2 wrote:

> Replying to my own post...
> One observation, when I pla back the capture mpeg from the cat 
> /dev/video0 command, mplayer describes it as an MPEG2 file. MythTV is 
> doing MPEG4 though, right? Could there be some difference thats 
> messing stuff up here?

The PVR-x50's always capture in MPEG-2 format.  With MythTV, you have 
the option of transcoding the captured MPEG-2 to MPEG-4 to save space.

Mike


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