[mythtv-users] DVB Radio

[Scott Alfter]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 12:40:23PM +0000, Nick Craig-Wood wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 07:42:50PM -0000, George Styles wrote:
> > Yes the ones i checked do broadcast in mp2.
> 
> Radio 4 broadcasts in 192kbit/s mp2 format
> 
> > The way I work is I have a script which takes the recorded shows, and 
> > re-encodes them from mp2 to mp3.
> 
> Do you have to re-encode them?  In my experience if you just rename
> the file .mp3 then mp3 players will play the file anyway as mp2 and
> mp3 are so similar.

More specifically, MP3 is a superset of MP2.  You should be able to feed MP2
data to an MP3 decoder.  If an MP3 decoder chokes on MP2 data, it's broken.

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