[mythtv-users] Capture to DV or "uncompressed" AVI instead of MPEG-PS?

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Tuesday 05 April 2005 17:25, Allan Stirling wrote:
> Gregg Casillo wrote:
> 
> > I doubt this is possible in MythTV, but if anyone knows if/how it 
might be 
> > possible to capture to DV or some sort of uncompressed AVI, please 
let me 
> > know.
> > 
> > 
> Riiight.
> 
> DV is MPEG2.

Um... no, DV is not MPEG.  What you might be confusing is the fact that 
Myth now supports capturing MPEG-2 data over Firewire from digital 
set-top boxes.  Since Firewire is the common transport for digital 
video cameras, it would be natural to assume that they also use an MPEG 
codec, but the fact is that they use DV, which is an entirely separate 
codec (with much less compression than MPEG, AFAIK).

However, now that Myth supports a Firewire interface, it should be 
possible to write a video capture class that can capture DV.  It's been 
mention before on either this or the -dev list as being a possibility, 
but I don't know if anyone's actually working on it.

-JAC