[mythtv-users] Tools for handling captured video

[Jason Hunt]

Greetings,

Hey guys I apologize if this type of question is out of topic for the
mailing list, but I was wondering if there is some open source tools to help
me handle some of my captured videos.

Here is what I have for example.  I am using a PVR-350, and when I capture a
show that last 30 minutes at 480x480 it is still taking up like 1 gig.  I
believe since the PVR-350 encodes the file as as mpeg file I can not further
reduce it with transcoder?  However, I did see something in the docs:


"The transcoder re-encodes files from one MythTV format to another. The main
purpose of the transcoder is to allow users with hardware encoders (PVR-250)
or systems that can only record in RTJpeg due to performance reasons
(multiple capture cards, slow system, etc) to create MPEG44 streams to save
space."

I am not sure if this applies, but how would one convert this via the
command line?

I guess another question would be what is a good capture video resolution?
480x480 didn't seem like a bad choice, but a 1 gig for 30 mins seems rather
large.

Anyway, let's say I do have a video that is 1 gig in size, how can I split
this file so I can make a two SVCD's on CDROM for example.  I guess my
question also is what tools do people use to split videos up in say 15 meg
parts when the upload them to USENET.

As always, thanks for any help.