[ivtv-users] pvr-150 streaming question

[Andy Walls]

On Sat, 2010-02-20 at 21:33 +0000, Colin Law wrote:
> 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:

> >> 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?

It looks like the patch is fetchable from this thread:

http://ivtvdriver.org/pipermail/ivtv-users/2008-May/008284.html

Specifically, this message:
http://ivtvdriver.org/pipermail/ivtv-users/2008-May/008296.html


I'll try to look at what happened to the wiki file.

Regards,
Andy