Comments on: mythtv recant http://wonkabar.org/2006/10/18/mythtv-recant/ linux, databases, cartoons and cornflakes Tue, 31 Aug 2010 02:54:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Scott Paul Robertson http://wonkabar.org/2006/10/18/mythtv-recant/comment-page-1/#comment-1064 Scott Paul Robertson Thu, 19 Oct 2006 05:24:37 +0000 http://wonkabar.org/archives/188#comment-1064 You know, using an mpeg2 capture card, myth records in mpeg2, and leaves them in mpeg2. For a while when the frontend wouldn't work on my mac, I would just copy the .mpg2 and watch it on my machine. We don't do any after record transcoding though, just adjust the recording quality instead. I'm not sure about other capture cards though. I know the old crappy haupauge we used to have ended up in .nuv. Oh, and have you seen mythtvfs? http://outflux.net/software/pkgs/mythtvfs-fuse/ You know, using an mpeg2 capture card, myth records in mpeg2, and leaves them in mpeg2. For a while when the frontend wouldn't work on my mac, I would just copy the .mpg2 and watch it on my machine. We don't do any after record transcoding though, just adjust the recording quality instead.

I'm not sure about other capture cards though. I know the old crappy haupauge we used to have ended up in .nuv.

Oh, and have you seen mythtvfs? http://outflux.net/software/pkgs/mythtvfs-fuse/

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