[mythtv-users] Current Status of BBC HD Capture with MythTV?

[David Watkins]

I was wondering if anyone is using MythTV to capture the BBC's HD
programmes on Freeview in London?

I have an EPIA M10000 with a Hauppauge WinTV-NOVA-T usb2, running a
recent SVN build.  The DVB scan finds the BBC HD channel and
scheduling a recording appears to work in that recording starts and
stops at the right times, with no obvious errors.  There's even some
good stuff in the backend log like:

<snip>

 Stream #0 pid(0x5de) type(video-h264  0x27)
 Stream Identifier Descriptor (0x52) length(1)
 Stream #1 pid(0x5e1) type(private-data  0x6)
  ISO-639 Language: code(eng) canonical(eng) eng(English)
  AC-3 Descriptor (0x6a) length(1)
  Stream Identifier Descriptor (0x52) length(1)

2006-10-18 23:34:42.075 PMT for output stream
2006-10-18 23:34:42.076 Program Map Table ver(6) pid(0x258) pnum(1) len(23)

 Stream #0 pid(0x5de) type(video-h264  0x27)
 Stream #1 pid(0x5e1) type(private-data  0x6)

2006-10-18 23:34:42.078 RecBase(0): SetRecording(0x894a768) title(BBCHD1)
2006-10-18 23:34:42.081 MSqlQuery: SELECT channel.videofilters FROM
channel WHERE channum  = '501' AND       sourceid = 2
2006-10-18 23:34:42.087 DVBRec(0): Card opened successfully fd(16)
...
<snip>

However, I end up with a zero-byte file :-(

I realise I won't be able to watch the recordings with the hardware
I've got, but I think I've worked out how to transcode from H264 into
MPEG2.  Then I was going to playback on my Dad's HDTV using a windows
box to see how it looks, before I decide whether to invest in my own
hardware.

Any tips greatly appreciated.