[mythtv] Transcoding of DVB-T recording expands the file

[Geoffrey Hausheer]

On Fri, 21 May 2004 17:44:34 +0200, "Kenneth Aafløy" said:
> On Friday 21 May 2004 16:13, Geoffrey Hausheer wrote:
> > On Thu, 20 May 2004 22:31:43 +0200, "Lorenz Hahn"  said:
> [snip]
> > > - The original file was about 2 GByte large, the transcoding result
> > >   wasted 40 GByte.
> >
> > it wasted 40GB?  I am confused.  Are you saying that the final result was
> > 40GB?  That is quite odd.
> 
> Just for informational purposes, I tried to gopchop a DVB recording last 
> night, and gopchop (gopchop.sf.net) could not find a single GOP (Group Of 
> Pictures). I had to download replex from metzlerbros.de, and run it
> through 
> that, after I'd done this, gopchop worked as expected. So it's clear to
> me 
> that the MPEG2 stream that the DVBRecorder generates is somewhat flakey.
> I'm unsure if I'm going to do something about it or not, since It's
> working 
> well for me, as I do not use any transcoding or cutting features.
> 
Ugh.  Yeah, well, that would certainly break the transcoder as it is
today.

I have several times considered using dvb-tools or replex (didn't work as
well as dvb-tools last time I checked) instead of ffmpeg for the
conversion, but have never gotten around to it.

.Geoff