[mythtv-users] No sound after channel change with Pinnacle PCTV USB2 tuner

Raymond Wagner raymond at wagnerrp.com
Fri Feb 3 17:25:53 UTC 2012


On 2/3/2012 11:21, Mark Lord wrote:
> On 12-02-03 10:30 AM, Devin Heitmueller wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Mark Lord<mythtv at rtr.ca>  wrote:
>>> On 11-11-22 07:28 PM, José Silva wrote:
>>>> Nonetheless, something still puzzles me: the MPEG chip encodes the
>>>> video, right?
>>> Audio _and_ video.  It encodes both, combines them into a single mpeg stream,
>>> and all that mythtv software needs to do is save the stream to a file.
> As far as analog tuners with built-in mpeg encoder chips,
> I know of only one: Plextor ConvertX PX-TV402U.

Technically, that specific device only encodes the video, leaving MythTV 
to independently capture, compress, and multiplex in the audio.


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