[mythtv-users] MythDVD Rip Quality

[Andrew Hogue]

Hi,

> 	MythDVD is just passing options to transcode. It figures out the kind
> of source material based on things like width, height, letterbox, etc
> (dvdinput table), and uses those to choose among output formats
> (dvdtranscode table).

Is it possible to make MythDVD use the .xvid2.cfg file in your home dir to
specify the quality of the transcode for xvid encoding?  Wouldn't it be
nicer to have the options passed to transcode simply have the "-Q X"
option where X is a number.  Perfect could be 0, Excellent would be 1,
etc... then transcode would look at the xvid2.cfg file in the mythtv
user's home directory for this file, if not found it will go with
defaults, if not, we would be able to modify these settings ourselves
right?

Maybe it already does this?

-- Andrew



>
> 	It may very well be that I have not supported some transcode option
> that would be very useful in acheiving some specific objective (such as
> PAL anamorphic related flags to do a minimum amount of CPU work but tag
> the output as 16:9). As long as that option is relevant to the
> transcoding of DVD's, it should probably be added.
>
> 	The place to start is to come up with the "perfect" transcode command
> line that does exactly what you want. If the tablespace and the mtd can
> alreay accomodate that command line, then write some SQL. If not, send
> me the command line and/or think about patching the tablespace/mtd
> code.
>
> - thor
>
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