Video translation magic

[Bill McGonigle]

On Feb 5, 2006, at 16:13, Cole Tuininga wrote:

> Here's the problem.  The Hauppage box itself only supports mpeg1/2
> encoded videos and I've got a variety of formats ranging from vob's, to
> mov's, to asf's, wmv's, and avi's.
>
> I've tried looking at (and playing with) ffmpeg and transcode, and I
> just don't understand this stuff well enough to figure out how to
> translate the files to the proper formatting.
>
> I was wondering if some kind soul out there knew the magic commands to
> take a given file and translate it to mpeg1/2?

You're going to lose noticeable quality by transcoding and it's not 
pleasantly fast - have you considered one of the alternatives that uses 
MPlayer as the front end?  Sorry, I'm still working on the hardware end 
of my DVR (parsing a Dish Network signal is apparently difficult) but 
from what I've read most of the projects use MPlayer as the front end 
and it can handle most video streams presented to it.  Geexbox 
<http://geexbox.org/en/start.html> would be one to look at or Freevo 
<http://freevo.sourceforge.net/about.html> if you want to hack on 
python.  You'd still use the video out of the Hauppage but the CPU 
would handle decoding.

-Bill

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