[linux-dvb] Re: VDR record mpeg2 stream?

[David Maslen <dmm_au@yahoo.com>]

Nico Sabbi <nsabbi@tiscali.it> writes:

> Il lun, 2004-08-02 alle 02:51, David Maslen ha scritto:
>> I use mplayer, or more precisely mencoder like this.
>> 
>> mencoder dvb://"$CHANNEL" -oac copy -ovc copy -quiet -endpos $TIME -o
>> $BASENAME.ts

> with that command you copy the content of audio and video streams
> but in avi; if you want it it mpeg add -of mpeg.
> You can't save TS with mencoder, but you can with mplayer:
>
> mplayer dvb://"$CHANNEL" -dumpstream -dumpfile CHANNEL.ts
>

Yes I could do it that way. I tried to use -of mpeg with mencoder and
found it didn't work. Since I wasn't sure that mpegs would work better
than avi's on the xbox I didn't pursue it.

Why would you chose to use the -of mpeg option?