[mythtv-users] Re: Archos AV400 Portable

Jeff volckaert jvolckaert at gmail.com
Tue Apr 26 20:10:38 UTC 2005


I use VirtualDub under windows to make AVIs for my Dell Axim.  I use
320x240 and a 200K bitrate.  I think the videos look great on the
handheld and an hour long show minus commercials is about 75M.

Jeff

On 4/26/05, Mike Ryan <mythtv at redmar.com> wrote:
> Quoting Mike Ryan <mythtv at redmar.com>:
> 
> > Hi
> >
> > Has anyone got exporting files for viewing on a Portable device working? I've
> > got an Archos AV400 and currently transfer the nuv files over to
> > Windows before
> > converting them. Obviously, this is a bit of a faff and I'm sure
> > there must be
> > some way to do it in Linux
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any suggestions
> >
> > Kind Regards
> >
> > Mike
> >
> 
> Hi
> 
> Nobody responded to my original request, so I've been doing a lot of playing
> around with all the options available, such as mkmovie, nuvexport to divx and
> xvid, and also playing with all the various tools available on Linux such as
> mencoder, ffmpeg, etc
> 
> A lot of the methods I tried all ended up with similar results, but I
> was always
> left with a lot of progressive scan issues on the portable, and quite
> often the
> sound would be a second or so delayed (this may be because of a separate
> problem I seem to be having with my dvb card skipping after about 4:30 minutes
> on every recording at the moment for some reason I haven't quite worked out.
> Also, some of the more satisfactory results required enormous amounts of
> processing time on an AMD Athlon(tm) 64 3200+ Processor and processing through
> two separate programs.
> 
> Anyway, the reason for the post was to say that it looks as though I've struck
> gold. The following command gives me fantastic results every time with
> no audio
> snyncing problems whatsoever. Also, this encodes direct from the Myth nuv file
> directly to the avi in one go. On my system it encodes about 25fps which is
> realtime for the uk, also I'm not sure if I should be expecting a better
> compression ratio - ie, a 1.8Gb file compresses down to about 480Mb
> 
> mencoder -oac mp3lame -vf scale=352:192 -ovc xvid -xvidencopts
> pass=2:bitrate=900 -o /mythtv/video/Jamies\ School\ Dinners.avi
> /mythtv/recordings/1008_20050309210000_20050309220000.nuv
> 
> I hope this helps anyone out in a similar position to myself.
> 
> Incidentally, does anyone know whether mythweb is going to be updated to allow
> you to queue jobs remotely? It's be well handy if I could queue a job up to do
> this.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Mike
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