[mythtv-users] Re: Large-scale myth farm

[Derek Meek]

On 10/3/05, Fred Squires <fsquires at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > There seem to be a number of different DVB cards that people use. I
> > persoanlly
> > use the Nebula DVB card, though other people report success with the
> > Avermedia
> > 771 card. One major issue with DVB cards is that manufacturers do change
> > chipsets with little or no notice but don't change their model numbers.
> If
> > you
> > buy any cards, budget for a few more and then keep them as spares. I
> would
> > suggest you buy a standard card and stick with it.
> >
> > All the DVB cards record the digital stream directly from the broadcast.
> > Not
> > sure if this is MPEG2 or MPEG4. Please note that the file format saved is
> > .NUV
> > which seems to be difficult to reprocess.
> >
> > You can setup the system to record the EPG information provided by the
> DVB
> > stream. This works pretty well, though only has a week in advance. I've
> > never
> > used Subtitiles so can't say if they work.
> >
>
> A DVB card simply saves the MPEG2 signal it receives, so the resulting file
> is an MPEG2. The format is not .NUV, but the file extension .NUV is added
> for consistency with the nupplevideo file an analog capture card would
> create.
>
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>
>

I believe i heard a comment in the live chat to the effect that
hardware-encoded MPEG2 streams will be tagged .mpg instead of .nuv in
the next version