[mythtv-users] Mpeg files produced by MythTV using a PVR-150 or PVR-500, anything special about them?

[Mark Wormgoor]

Nicolas Riendeau wrote:
> Hi!
>> On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 08:10 +0200, Mark Wormgoor wrote:
>>
>>> I experienced the same issues in the past. My guest would be that you 
>>> have VBI (Teletext) enabled in the recordings. This somehow gets 
>>> embedded in the mpeg2 file, making it unplayable in most players 
>>> (except mythfrontend). As soon as I turned off VBI, I had no more 
>>> issues with my recordings.
> 
> Thank you Mark! To deactivate VBI do I only need to set the VBI format 
> to "none"?
> 
> There seems to be a small rendering problem on my PC and for some reason 
> I don't see all the options in the setup screens so it could be some 
> place else but I haven't seen it (even though I checked all the setup 
> screens in mythtv-setup... 

It's in mythtv-setup (on the system where your encoder cards are), under 
General.

Kind regards,

Mark