[mythtv-users] DCT-6200 w/ FireWire -- Looking for Input..

[Todd Tidwell]

Just gave this a shot, and I get "picture size invalid (0x0)" in the logs
before the job fails.  Looking at libavcodec utils.c, there is a function
that returns that error and it seems to be returning it because it is passed
0 x 0 as the width and height.  

Also, to the poster that posted about changing the size of the picture
coming out of the DCT-6200 via firewire:  I used the menu option and changed
it to 480p but it is still giving me a 1920x1080 picture.  It hasn't shrunk
at all.

-Todd

-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Chris Pinkham
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 8:40 PM
To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] DCT-6200 w/ FireWire -- Looking for Input..

> The resolution of the video depends on the provider, I think.  For me, in
> the SF Bay Area using Comcast, I'm getting 1940x1400 (1080i or what is
> that?) which comes to between 6.3 and 7.3 Gb per hour.  My hope is that
> sometime soon the transcoding options will allow resize for sizes greater
> than 720x480 so that I can transcode this to 720p.

Try the attached patch.  This will let you set the size greater than
720x480 on the transcoding profiles.  I'm not 100% sure what the max
size the encoding libraries can handle though, so you might run into
limits elsewhere.

Let me know how it works out and if things work OK, we can get a
similar mod into CVS.

-- 

Chris