[mythtv-users] Proper Recording Archive Procedure?

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 03:16:36PM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote:
> On Sep 4, 2007, at 3:04 PM, Mike LaPlante wrote:
> > Steve Peters - Priority Electronics wrote:
> >> 1. Use NUVEXPORT for your archiving to save space. I use it with the
> >>
> >>
> > Sorry if this is a thread-jack. But something that I've been  
> > meaning to
> > ask. Why are all my recordings .mpg?
> 
> If you have a hardware MPEG-2 encoder card, your recordings will be  
> in MPEG format.  Recordings that Myth software encodes (either on-the- 
> fly or with transcoding) are in NUV format.

And to clarify further, recordings made with a hardware MPEG tuner have
*always* been stored as MPEG2, they were just incorrectly labeled.  Now
they aren't.

Cheers,
-- jra
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