[mythtv-users] Cables and more space...ideas?

Jesse Guardiani jesse at wingnet.net
Wed Aug 17 16:29:31 UTC 2005


Fedor Pikus wrote:

>On 8/17/05, gLaNDix (Jesse Kaufman) <glandix at lloydnet.org> wrote:
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>>>You should really consider sitting down some afternoon and playing with
>>>mencoder's multipass variable bitrate settings in xvid, and seeing if
>>>you can find something acceptable smaller, otherwise, there's really no
>>>point in bothering at all.
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>>>
>>i'd rather leave the video alone and just strip out what i don't want
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>mplayer dvd://1 -aid 128 -dumpstream -dumpfile video.mpg
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>Replace 1 and 128 with the title and audio channel you need. Perfect
>copy, AC3 preserved if it's there (DVDs usually have AC3 streams but
>don't have to). Subtitles will be gone, other audio gone, comments and
>bonus materials also gone unless you pick that title (then main
>feature will be gone :).
>
>MPlayer can play the resulting file, don't know about other players.
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Does anyone know how to strip out the AC3 so that the resulting file is 
something that the
mpeg2 decoder on a PVR 350 can understand?


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Jesse Guardiani
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