Sorry about how newbie-ish this question will be.

I am currently using a TV Wonder card to grab the video. Next week I will upgrade to a Hauppauge PVR-150 for the onboard MPEG-2 encoding.

Two questions:
1. With the new card, will it record and save to /myth/tv as an MPEG-2 (albiet with the .nuv extension)? Or will it need to transcode still to MPEG-2 after the recording.
2. The current TV Wonder card saves its files as .nuv, but so will the PVR-150. But, these files are NOT the same format, even though they have the same file extension? (I'm giving the old card to someone else wanting to set up their own box).

Thanks for the help,
Jason

1) PVR-150 has an MPEG2 encoder, so it will be an MPEG2 recording from the outset--no transcoding needed.

2) The way I like to think of it is that ".nuv" is like ".mov"... if I have a QuickTime movie, it could be MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4, animation, pixlet, Cinepak, uncompressed, etc. etc. etc., but they could all still have a ".mov" extender. Once you start recording with the 150, you could copy the .nuv files to a PC or Mac, change the extender to .mpg, and they will play fine. Or you could search for the "pretty" script which automatically makes symlinks to your .nuvs with mpg extensions.

Thanks. I had been wondering about the /myth/pretty directory which had a non-working mpg in there. I'm slowly figuring it out. I hadn't touched linux in almost 3 years.

Luckily, I was previously a debian user, and it all came back pretty quick.