[mythtv-users] HDTV Recording Profiles

[Chris Petersen]

> It seems you did not get a response on this... Two things to note here.  
> Recording profiles have no meaning with the HD-3000 as the incoming 
> stream does not need to be encoded.  It is already MPEG2 (in an MPEG-TS 
> container).  the Nuv format is also just a wrapper that MythTV wraps 
> your stream in, so once again, no converting is done here.  Now... with 
> regards to converting them to Divx, that you can do with transcoding 
> profiles, or mencoder, or transcode.  Each has it's own pros and cons.

no, in this case, nuv is *not* a wrapper.  With HDTV, the file is pure 
and simple an mpeg transport stream that happens to have a .nuv suffix 
on its name instead of .mpg.

-Chris