[ivtv-users] pvr-150 streaming question

[Colin Law]

On 20 February 2010 15:55, Andy Walls <awalls at radix.net> wrote:
> 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 had not seen this previously.  I am using DeVeDe to make a DVD iso
file rather than putting the mpeg file directly on the DVD and this
works ok.  Following some intensive googling I tried setting the type
to 3 and other settings as noted in
http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Howto:ivtv_for_dvdauthor with the hope
that in DeVeDe I could tell it that it was a DVD compatible mpeg so
that it did not need to re-encode it.  No luck with this however,
DeVeDe fails generating the iso.

Colin