[mythtv] Firewire DV Capture

Taylor Jacob rtjacob at earthlink.net
Thu Feb 10 17:08:59 UTC 2005


Quoting Daniel Thor Kristjansson <danielk at mrl.nyu.edu>:

> On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 jimbo-mythtv at edwardsclan.net wrote:
> ]implementing.  Since libiec61883 also supports DV stream capture, using an
> ]almost identical API, I was thinking of creating another patch that uses DV
> ]stream instead of MPEG2 TS.  This would allow those encrypted channels to
> ]different structure, how might that code have to change?  Would the
> ]DTVRecorder class be able to handle DV streams with minimal modification?
> ]>From what I can tell, it seems to be very specific to MPEG2.
>
> DV streams are significantly different from the MPEG streams that
> dtvrecorder deals with. I would write a new recorder for DV streams.
> You might also need to modify the player a little bit, but it's
> basically a wrapper around ffmpeg so this shouldn't be difficult.

The other thing to remember is DV is frame by frame compression and will take up
a considerable more ammount of HDD space..

Taylor



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