[mythtv-users] Sometimes nuv, sometimes mpg

[Andrew Robinson]

Joe Votour wrote:
> 
> --- Andrew Robinson <awrobinson-ml at nc.rr.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Some of my recordings get recorded as nuv and some
>>get recorded as mpg. 
>>What determines this? I'd like to be able to control
>>this. In general 
>>I'd prefer mpg because I like to drop my recordings
>>on DVDs.
>>
> 
> What kind of capture cards do you have?
> 
> MPEG files typically come from MPEG-2 and/or MPEG-4
> encoder cards like the PVR-x50 series.  NUV is the
> (default) format that MythTV uses for frame-grabber
> cards like the WinTV and other cheap BT-8x8 cards
> (this includes the analog input on many DVB cards
> also).
> 

It's a PVR-250. The "native" format is mpeg2 which from experience works 
really well with DVD.

Andrew