[mythtv-users] Record to "MPEG-2 SVCD-compatible Stream" with Hauppauge PVR USB2

Carsten Meier cm at internalscripts.de
Tue Jul 15 15:13:09 UTC 2008


> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 10:00:28AM +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 2:25 AM, Jay R. Ashworth <jra at
> > baylink.com> wrote:
> > > No, his question is actually, so far as I can determine, "how do I
> > > configure my recording parameters for the Hauppauge card so as to
> > > get SVCD compliant MPEG files out of it".
> > >
> > > I don't know the answer, that just seems to me to be the
> > > question.  :-)
> > >
> > > MPEG1 seems required, though, if I remember my SVCD...
> > 
> > I think you are thinking of VCD, not SVCD. According to wikipedia:
> > 
> > Video
> > 
> >     * Codec: MPEG-2
> 
> Yeah, you're right; I went back and re-read his posting after I hit
> send and saw what the card said.
> 
> *I* think the answer is just "create a recording profile for the card
> that has the parameters you just copied from Wikipedia, and see if it
> works."  :-)
> 
No, that won't work, as the SVCD-MPEG-2-stream requires scan-offsets
(SOF) that aren't part of a "normal" stream.


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