[mythtv-users] best USB video capture (composite & audio)

[Chris Pinkham]

* On Thu Mar 13, 2008 at 08:57:16AM -0600, Brian Wood wrote:
> Thanks for the status update, and the code. I'll dig out one of my  
> Plextors and try it. When I was playing with it a year ago the MPEG-4  
> modes were a problem for me as the MediaMVP would only deal with  
> MPEG-2 modes (though that may have changed by now as well).

Sorry, I forgot to clarify one thing in my earlier reply.  This only
changes the video encoding, it does not change the container format
of the output file.  Myth will still generate a .nuv file.  Part of
the reason I looked at this to begin with was because I'm (slowly)
working on another patch to allow the software encoder
(aka NuppelVideoRecorder) to generate other container formats supported
by libavformat.

What this means is that right now even if you tell Myth to use MPEG-2
video with your ConvertX box, you still won't be able to play the files
on your mvpmc since the mvpmc can't read .nuv.  Eventually you'll be
able to tell Myth to use MPEG-2 video and put it in an mpeg-ps container
which the mvpmc should be able to play.

--
Chris