[vdr] Re: Introduction from newbie

[Hennebert Philippe <philippe.hennebert@bordet.be>]

Sorry to have been so unspecific, when I wrote about burning into DVD-Rs, I
meant burning into DVD-R in the usual Video-DVD format readable by most
living-room DVD players (with ifo, ...).

Andreas Roedl wrote:
>Of course you could burn the MPEG2PES that you get from DVB/VDR to a DVD-R 
>but this is not the right stream type of a DVD. Sometimes I burn the
MPEG2PES 
>stream without any conversion to a CDR, but this is only playable by VDR 
>itself or some sort of computer software but not on a DVD/(S)VCD player. It

>depends on the target system that replays your recordings. Conversion is 
>necessary for DVD/(S)VCD player. The conversion and burning process can be 
>automated by a script at the same VDR box. One of the most sophisticated 
>conversion tools is transcode:

Would transcode effectively decompress and recompress the stream or use the
existing MPEG2 compression - just rearranging and reformatting what would be
needed? (I checked the transcode web page, but I'm not technical enough to
extract that information) I.e. would we get on-the-fly MPEG2 compression as
the final result or the "good" in-advance compression performed before
broadcasting?

Thanks a lot for all your quick replies,

Philippe