[mythtv-users] Plextor ConvertX Mpeg-2?

[Jesse Guardiani]

On Saturday 04 February 2006 11:40 pm, Byron Poland wrote:
> On 2/4/06, Jesse Guardiani <jesse at wingnet.net> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I bought a ConvertX recently because I wanted to try out
> > Mpeg-4 compression. I've decided that I don't like Mpeg-4 very
> > much. The compression is decent (700MB/hr vs 2.1Gb/hr in mpeg-2),
> > but the quality is noticeably worse. Pixelation and screen
> > artifacts are common. It's not as polished as Mpeg-2. And burning
> > Mpeg-4 to DVD via MythBurn isn't possible currently, so the
> > cons outweigh the pros.

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> Mythtv only support mpeg-4 from the convertX.  I'm not sure if the
> developers are adding support for the other formats.  I've found if I
> crank the bit rate up pretty hi, mpeg-4 looks okay.


Out of curiosity I think I'll give that a try, but I still think I'm
more interested in mpeg-2 in the future. Sticking with mpeg-2 alleviates
the MythBurn issues, and I burn a lot of DVDs.

So... once 0.19 comes out, maybe I can add support for mpeg-2 from the
ConvertX. Can't be that hard. PVR x50 card profiles support changing 
the mpeg format type. Should be able to just use the same sort of code.
In theory. :)


> I'm so used to 
> HDTV now though, that anything else pal's in comparison.


Yeah. I live in an apartment currently, and I'm at least 20 miles from
a broadcast station, so I'd need a pretty beefy antennae. Unfortunately
all the HDTV signals come from the wrong side of the apartment, so I'd
absolutely have to mount an antennae to the roof, and that's just out
of the question. Besides, I don't have that kind of disk space yet. 
Hopefully I'll jump on the HDTV bandwagon by 2007. Sure would like to
have 5.1 audio on my shows. :)

Thanks!

-- 
Jesse Guardiani
Programmer/Sys Admin
jesse at wingnet.net