[mpeg2] Re: mpex experience

[Werner John <john@oswf.de>]

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