[ivtv-users] pvr-150 streaming question

[Colin Law]

On 20 February 2010 17:14, faginbagin <mythtv at hbuus.com> wrote:
>
>
> Andy Walls 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 don't know for sure, as I have no personal experience.
>>
>
> Yes, I can confirm that using that stream type for recordings produces mpg
> files with the VOBUs required for DVD-Video, UNLESS you also have VBI
> enabled (which adds the driver's private stream with sliced VBI data). But
> if you don't want to capture closed captions or teletext and don't enable
> VBI (forget the control for that), you can give the recorded file to a
> patched version of dvdauthor and it will be happy. Just be sure the
> resolution and bit stream are compatible with DVD standards. You can find
> out more about the patch for dvdauthor here:
> http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Howto:ivtv_for_dvdauthor

I thought I would give that a go but the patch for dvdauthor supposed
to be at http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/File:Dvdauthor-0.6.14-ivtv-patch.txt
seems to have gone.  Does anyone know where I can get it?

Colin

>
> FWIW, this works with recordings from the cx18 driver (for HVR-1600s), too.
>
> HTH,
> Helen
>
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