[mythtv-users] Plextor M402U. Supported or not?

[Jim Minihane]

OK. I can't transcode MPEG4 to MPEG2. I can live with that. What about
ripping a DVD? What's the output format? Is it just a DVD ISO image?

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Pinkham <cpinkham at bc2va.org>
To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 01:50:34 -0500
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Plextor M402U. Supported or not?

> * On Tue Mar 14, 2006 at 11:03:00PM -0500, Dale E. Martin wrote:
> > - transcode to mpeg-2 does not seem to work.  I'd like to hear
> someone else
> > chime in on this and see if it's me doing something stupid or if it's
> > really not supported.
> 
> Transcode to MPEG-2 is not supported currently.  You can do "lossless"
> transcoding which mainly just cuts out the portions you don't want,
> fills
> in the necessary frames to attach the two ends together, and fixes bad
> spots in the stream.
> 
> I'm playing around with code in my local SVN tree to allow
> NuppelVideoRecorder
> to generate a mpeg-ps stream instead of a nuppel .nuv file.  This would
> mean you could both software encode to MPEG-2 while recording and
> transcode
> from either MPEG-4/MPEG-2/RTJPEG to MPEG-2.  This probably won't be in
> SVN for a while, it's just something I started messing with earlier
> this week
> and I'm learning libavcodec and libavformat as I go since I haven't
> messed
> with them a lot prior to this.
> 
> --
> Chris
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