[mythtv-users] nuvexport/transcode settings survey for acceptable quality

[Matt Vollmar]

I would like to take a quick survey to find out what settings you guys 
find acceptable for exporting movies.  I have several (16 or so) movies 
that I want to export to a smaller format to save space.  Here are my 
questions:

1)  What format do you use to retain the most quality?
2)  What bitrates for video and audio?
3)  Do you use 2-pass or 1-pass?
4)  Any gotchas?
5)  What is the size you get per hour of video?

I've learned quite a bit about ffmpeg recently for DVD-quality exports, 
but i don't really want these movies to be that big.  I would like to 
fit 4 movies per DVD if possible (not necessarily in MPEG format -- I'm 
using Movix).

Thanks for any comments you can offer.

Matt