[mythtv-users] Transcode in place to MPEG-2 (PS)?

[Jeremy Jones]

On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 19:56 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Jeremy Jones
> <jeremy.dwain.jones at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Does anyone have a setup that they will share that will transcode
> > recorded TV in place to MPEG-2 Program stream.
> 
> If I understand you correctly then you are making this WAY more
> difficult that you need to. You may need to setup a custom transcode
> but this is easily done within MythTV.
> 
> Look at:
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Mythtranscode
> 
> Richard

Thanks Richard,

>From reading the page on the wiki I gathered I can do this with
mythtranscode by adding the --mpeg2 option.  I still assume that I have
to do this through an external script and call it as a user job, since
the transcode gui setup within myth is limited to the choices of mpeg4
or RTjpeg.  Is this correct?  Or am I still making it too hard?

Just a question: if mythtranscode will output to mpeg2 program stream,
then why is that not an option in the gui setup of transcoders?  Or is
it, and I have overlooked that as well?

Thanks,

Jeremy