PVR-150 TV card woes

[Daniel Parish]

On 12/13/06, Colin Brace <cb at lim.nl> wrote:
>
> On 12/13/06, Daniel Parish <parishd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I use the included script ivtv-tune.pl
>
> Included with what? I can't find any such perl script on my system. I
> have ivtv 0.8.1 installed from atrpms.
>
> > Not quite as convenient as the onscreen channel widget
> > called ptune-ui.pl (if memory serves), but I haven't tried that one out
> > since migrating to FC6.
>
> I'd happily settle for the perl script.


I installed from the tarball.  If the scripts don't come with the atrpms
distribution then just download the tarball and extract them from there.

As an aside, I'm still wondering about the utility of hardware mpeg
> encoding. The raw mpeg stream from the PVR-150 takes up on the order
> of 3 gb of diskspace an hour, so you still need to further encode PVR
> output, either on the fly with mencoder or later with avidemux from
> the humongous disk file. Presumably the latter approach gives better
> results, but is there that much difference and/or is it worth trouble,
> given the middling quality of analog TV input? I also have a Pinnacle
> card, which works well with tvtime, and on-the-fly mpeg2 encoding done
> in software certainly is feasible on my pentium IV box. Thoughts on
> this?
>

The bit rate can be adjusted using ivtvctl as described in Bob's post.

Daniel
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