[mythtv-users] Recoding in native TS format and Setup with ATSC as DVB card

[Jonathan Watmough]

On 5/5/05, Howard Cokl <hojoloco at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> --- Andrew Chung <acchung at techie.com> wrote:
> > Hi everyone. I just started exploring MythTV so
> > please bear with me if I
> > ask a question that has already been answered. I've
> > tried Googling and
> > reading as much as I can but my eyes are starting to
> > bleed!
> >
> > Is it possible to have MythTV record to a raw .TS
> > file instead of its native
> > .nuv format? What is the difference between these
> > two file formats? My
> > goal is to archive shows on a permanent basis and I
> > would prefer to get
> > either a raw .TS or a pure MPEG-2 from the transport
> > stream.
> > Also I'm checking the option on the video input to
> > save as .ts instead of
> > .ps. What does this actually do?
> >
> >
> > My second question is a setup question. I've been
> > struggling with getting
> > the Linux system stable and to get my 2 pcHDTV
> > HD-3000 cards working. Took
> > me a while but those seem to be working fine. When
> > it came to installing
> > MythTV the online docs were pretty good, except for
> > the part where you add
> > channels.
> >
> > Initially I signed up for Zap2It and performed a
> > mythfilldatabase as the
> > manual instructed. However I was never able to get
> > any channels to tune. A
> > few days later I figured out that I can do an ATSC
> > tune and I was able to
> > see all my local OTA channels. At this point
> > however, I had a disconnect
> > between the guide information and some tunable
> > channels. The guide couldn't
> > tune, and the tuneable channels had no guide!
> > Tonight I tried taking the
> > XMLTVIDs from the Zap2It guide. I purged the
> > database and started with a
> > clean one. I then scanned my OTA channels. After
> > scanning I manually set
> > the XMLTVID values for each of my channels. Is this
> > the way it works or am
> > I missing something fundamental here?
> >
> > Been having fun trying to get this working!
> >
> > Andy



Not used the Myth channel scan, but I took the slightly different route of 
manually pinning down all the channels with dtvscan /dev/dtv, then building 
a profile on zap2it, then manually tweaking the channel values until 
everything tuned properly in myth.

I'm on the CVS from about 5 weeks ago, but still using the HDTV drivers 
rather than the DVB ones, which I couldn't get to work.


Andy,
> AFAIK myth does record from ATSC cards in either
> ts or ps, the nuv extension doesn't affect what the
> file actually is.
> file 2005_20050427220000_20050427230000.nuv
> 2005_20050427220000_20050427230000.nuv: MPEG transport
> stream data
> 
> I record mine using .ts simply because my box is
> underpowered to begin with and I think that recording
> in .ps involves more processing but a smaller file.
> 
> I think you are on the right track for your channel
> setup. What I did was have mythtvsetup scan for the
> ATSC channels in the channel editor, added the xmltvid
> from the zap2it channels to the scanned channels and
> then marked all of the zap2it channels invisible so
> that only the scanned channels show up in the program
> guide.
> 
> Howard
> 
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