[mythtv] Re: mkmovie

[Rob Snow]

You might also look at my my mythencode.pl scripts in contrib, it groks 
hours per CD and allows you to set CD size (170,650,700MB).

-Rob


On Tue, 29 Apr 2003 09:30:11 -0700 (PDT), Charles Choukalos wrote
> Hi Jay,
> 
> Just wanted to throw out a quick thanks for working
> mkmythmovie... I've been waiting for an easier way to
> transcribe myth's nuv files to divx to then burn off
> to cd, or send to my other systems.  I too have found
> SVCDs to not be worth the effort.  Its easier just
> going the home theater PC route, or pipe via RF
> modulator the video signal to your tv.  I prefer DIVX.
>  Now having said that... what I'd like to suggest, is
> a simple addition to your script (this is what I used
> to rip my DVD movies).
> 
> I do my rips based upon 700mb CD sizes.
> If a move is > 89mins length, then its fit to 2 CD's,
> otherwise it fits to 1 CD.
> 
> If a movie is considered LQ (ie cheesy movie, not
> super interested in it, or recorded with really low
> resolutions)... anything less then 120 mins is 1 CD,
> otherwise its 2 CDs.
> 
> I then run a simple bitrate calculation to come up
> with Videobitrate and Audiobit rate.  it tends to work
> fairly well for my purposes.  Then I can burn cd's at
> my leisure.  But if you want a push button burn to
> CDr... I'd say bail on SVCD, and just have a push
> button burn divx to CDR...  then put code in MythVideo
> that lets you watch a movie in the cd rom drive  (I
> think they're working on this... be it dvd, svcd, vcd,
> divx, etc...)
> 
> Just my .02
> 
> -Chuck
> 
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