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[mpeg2] Re: mpex experience
Hi Thomas
Thanks for your reply.
Thomas Sparr writes:
> On Thursday 21 August 2003 10.14, Werner John wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am planing to get one of these mpex cards. But firstly, I would like to
> > ask if someone on this list has any experience with this card.
> >
> > Werner
>
> Hi Werner,
>
> I bought one of these a couple of weeks ago.
Do you have one with a TV tuner onboard?
> The most important thing to keep in mind are that the drivers are not really
> finished yet.
Well, I have no problem with that, since it's just some kind of hobby.
> Video capture works perfect and and you can get an Mpeg2 tranport stream just
> by doing something like this: cat /dev/v4l/video1 > test.m2t
> [...]
That sounds good.
> In the driver I use there is no way to control the mpeg encoder (bitrate,
> format etc) but there are a new driver out for 2.6.0-test3 and
> 2.4.22-pre_somthing that should be able to do that.
Where do you get the latest drivers from? Do they also support the tuner?
> As soon as changing bitrate and format on the mpeg2 encoder works this will be
> a nice card although a bit expensive I think...
yes, it is. Haupauge also sells cards with an mpeg2 encoder (and one with
en- and decoder). Are there drivers available for these cards under linux?
Werner
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