You can loop the output to the input, of either the 350 into itself or to the pvr150, it should degrade a little as expected with any transcoding, but it is the best you can do at the moment since we don't know how to use the hardware (or if possible) to transcode.
Thanks, Chris On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 08:09:04PM +0200, Michel Verbraak wrote: > I have the following question: > > Is is possible to change the bitrate of a recorded mpegstream by using > the hardware on a PVR-350 and or in combination with a PVR-150? > > Explanation: > I have recorded a movie with my PVR-350 with a bitrate of 8000000 and a > bitrate_peak of 8500000. This movie is just a bit more than 2 hours long > and 4.6GB large. It will not fit on one DVD. > I can use avidemux2 to make a new mpeg stream with a lower bitrate but > on my machine it takes about 8 hours to do so. > > Now I thought to use my hardware, I have a PVR-350 and a PVR-150. This > should only take me the 2 hours of the movie. > > 1st question: > Can I use only the PVR-350 to do the above? Something like "cat file.mpg > > /dev/video16" and in another proces "cat /dev/video0 > newfile.mpg". > How do I have to setup the card to enable this? Currently I cannot find > any control options to set de decoder to output to the encoder. Or am I > missing something? > > 2nd question: > Do I need to hook the PVR-350 output up to the PVR-150 input for video > and audio? I have not yet tried this option because I do not have the > right cabeling at home right now. > > Using: kernel 2.6.10 and ivtv-0.3.2p > > Regards, > > Michel > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide > Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. > Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click > _______________________________________________ > ivtv-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ivtv-devel -- --- Chris Kennedy / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Engineer KMOS-TV/KTBG-FM Broadcasting Services Department Central Missouri State University ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ivtv-devel
