[mythtv] MPEG4 files

Matt Zimmerman mdz at debian.org
Wed Apr 9 23:54:39 EDT 2003


On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 05:06:06PM -0700, Chris Palmer wrote:

> I don't fully understand the patch to mplayer.  It seems
> that there are limits to what you can convert to.  I thought
> I'd be able to use mencoder to convert to any format that
> mencoder can write as, but it doesn't seem to be able to.

It is.

> But, I want to take recordings from MythTV and re-encode
> them into some other format, or modify the resolution or
> bitrate and I can't seem to get mencoder to do anything
> with the Myth files other than "copy" the stream, which
> means it hasn't changed anything.
>
> Am I missing something, or is this just "the way it is"
> (for now, I hope)?

Works fine for me.

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 - mdz


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