[ivtv-users] pvr-150 streaming question

[Andy Walls]

On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 14:35 +0000, Colin Law wrote:
> Hi
> 
> My first post here as a newcomer to the field of video capture.
> I have installed a Hauppauge pvr-150 in my PC running Ubuntu 9.10. I
> wish to use it to convert my stack of video tapes to DVD before my
> ageing video recorder dies.
> 
> With a bit of googling I learnt that I should install ivtv-utils  and
> am able to set the input channel to the composite i/p with
> v4l2-ctl --set-input=2

So I've wondered about this control:

$ v4l2-ctl -L

[...]
                    stream_type (menu) : min=0 max=5 default=0 value=0 flags=update
				0: MPEG-2 Program Stream
				2: MPEG-1 System Stream
				3: MPEG-2 DVD-compatible Stream
				4: MPEG-1 VCD-compatible Stream
				5: MPEG-2 SVCD-compatible Stream
[...]

I suspect, if you want to make actual DVD's playable by a DVD player,
you may wish to set the stream_type=3 before starting the capture.

I don't know for sure, as I have no personal experience.

Regards,
Andy