[mythtv-users] Fwd: Recording Profiles

[Kevin Kuphal]

Donavan Stanley wrote:

>On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 08:23:16 -0600, Kevin Kuphal <kuphal at dls.net> wrote:
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>>Recording profiles are applicable for "Software encoders" as I believe
>>is evident by that text prior to entering that screen (I'm not in front
>>of my Myth box right now but I think I recall something about software
>>encoders in that setup section).  Hardware encoders like HDTV, DVB, and
>>PVR-x50s recording in their native formats and need transcoding to be
>>coverted otherwise.
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>No.
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>Recording profiles are used for everything execpt HDTV cards and DVB
>cards.  In both of those cases the original signal is an MPEG2 stream
>from start to finish so the bitrate and the like are out of our
>control.  For all others, including the PVRx50 cards, we can tune all
>of those things.
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>Note that these are different from transcoding profiles.
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Thanks for the clarification.  I was speaking solely of the codec.  I 
don't have a hardware card so I hadn't looked into the specific things 
you can tune.

Kevin