[mythtv] ConvertX MPEG2 in v0.21

Alan Hourihane alanh at fairlite.demon.co.uk
Tue Mar 11 15:41:44 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 11:31 -0400, Chris Pinkham wrote:
> * On Mon Mar 10, 2008 at 12:53:58PM -0700, Joe Stevens wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I noticed that a good deal of code has been added to NuppleVideoRecorder.cpp
> > that would seem to suggest the Plextor ConvertX series of USB MPEG4 encoder
> > boxes should be able to do MPEG2 (specifically, from this version it will
> > set GO7007_MPEG_VIDEO_MPEG2 if the videocodec is set as mpeg2).  However,
> > MPEG2 is still not selectable as a an option in mythtv-setup.
> 
> I added this mainly because I'm working on another patch to allow the
> NuppelVideoRecorder class to write out other container formats such as
> mpeg-ps.  I tested MPEG-2 with my ConvertX box, but didn't get all the
> glue code setup to make a .nuv file with MPEG-2 video.  I think this is
> fairly simple with the other mods I already put in.

I'm another eager to try out Chris' new code.

Alan.




More information about the mythtv-dev mailing list