[mythtv-users] nuvexport (aka nuv -> svcd)

[Jason Cooper]

Chris Petersen (lists at forevermore.net) wrote:
> ok, getting to be enough demand that I don't want to just email it
> out..  I've put it on my website:
> 
> http://forevermore.net/nuvexport.tar.bz2
> 
> It's just a tiny perl script - about 19k uncompressed.
> 
> Anyway, for those to whom I've already sent this, you'll probably want
> to grab this copy, since i've added manual overrides to audio and video
> bitrates, and the vbr quality/quantisation setting.
> 
> Default quality is 10, which may or may not fit about 1 hour of video on
> one 800 meg CD.  Make the number bigger (or the maximum bitrate smaller)
> to make the filesize smaller.  Let me know what you all end up with for
> the best quality setting for fitting data onto a cd (I'd aim for 45
> minutes per 800 meg CD, about quality 6 or 7, once the cutlist stuff
> works).  Unfortunately, with no multipass vbr, we can't get as exact as
> I do in windows with the ability to set an average bitrate, but such is
> the price for free software.

Running it on an episode of Southpark right now.  Not really getting a
good idea of the time it takes as I'm also emerging (Gentoo) OpenOffice
from source... If SP comes out okay, may try Stargate.  

Have you considered a Tk front end?  I've done a couple if you'd like me
to take a crack at it (Perl/Tk, of course).  It would be time
permitting... 

Cooper.