[mythtv-users] recording radio as mp3 instead of mpg?

[Brad Fuller]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 8:50 AM, James Stembridge <jstembridge at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 6:59 PM, Udo van den Heuvel <udovdh at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>>> Can I configure MythTV somehow to record radio as mp3 file, instead of
>>> mp3 inside an mpeg stream?
>>> (I know I can dump the audio from the mpeg but I would like to skip that
>>> step)
>>
>> I assume you're talking about radio channels on dvb-t?
>>
>> If so the audio is probably mp2 rather than mp3, at least that's
>> certainly the case here in the UK. Assuming this is the case for you
>> too you'll obviously have to transcode, there's a contrib script that
>> does that.
>
> One thing I am curious about, how different is an mp2 stream from an
> mp3 stream? Is it backwards compatible? Can I change the file
> extension from .mp2 to .mp3 and fool my ipod? If so you really only
> need to demux the stream and change the extension.

no. MP3, is actually a nickname for MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3.

Just google MPEG2 or MPEG-2


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Brad Fuller
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