[pvrusb2] MPEG1 stream type

[Mike Isely]

On Sat, 19 May 2007, Frédéric Jouault wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Has anybody been able to get an MPEG1 stream from a pvrusb2 device under Linux?
> 
> Under Windows, with VLC, I was able to get such a stream and send it
> to a MPEG1 player, which does not support MPEG2.
> 
> However, when I play with the settings in
> /sys/class/pvrusb2/sn-xxxxxxx/ (especially ctl_stream_type), although
> I manage to get something that looks like MPEG1, the video is
> distorted.
> 
> Before doing any further investigation (I must admit I do not even
> have the latest version of the driver installed), I would like to know
> if this is supposed to work or not ;-).
> 

That control (like a lot of them) directly map down to controls exported 
by the mpeg encoder chip.  The pvrusb2 driver merely passes down the 
information.  I've played around with various things using those 
controls (mainly with filtering), but I haven't tried that particular 
one.

  -Mike


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