[mythtv] MythArchive: tcrequant now deprecated: is there an alternative?

[John Pilkington]

John Pilkington wrote:

>>>> tcrequant has been available to shrink-to-fit when creating DVDs in
>>>> MythArchive.  In the new release of 'transcode' it is deprecated and
>>>> not built by default.  Is there a known alternative?

Michael Haas wrote:
Vamps might work: http://vamps.sourceforge.net/

Its exactly a year since these posts. That was the only reply and I 
eventually got a vamps-based solution that more-or-less worked.  Last 
week I tried searching again and found a real solution, still based 
directly on the newer requantisation code released by Metakine but now 
adapted for simple use under Linux.

http://code.flexion.org/M2VRequantiser.html

In order to use it I've made changes to mythburn.py, but my current 
version has other unrelated changes that won't be to everyone's taste.
The story so far, with my diff file, is here:

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/atrpms/users/13558#13558

HTH

John Pilkington