[mythtv-users] Tran-splode?

[David Whyte]

How do you change the default transcode policy?

I once tried a transcode, which went forever and I never saw any
actual difference in files.  I think it probably made the file so huge
that I didn't have enough space within the ten gigs I had when
trialling myth and so the transcoder gave up.

I would like to try again now though and convert to MPEG4/XviD or
whatever but I would like to make sure I am going to the right format.

Cheers,
Dave


On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 07:34:01 -0700, Brian LeFevre <blefevre at ida.net> wrote:
> manu wrote:
> > Le 13.01.2005 09:08:14, John Johnson a écrit :
> >
> >> After recording some shows (PVR-250), I thought I'd try transcoding
> >> them, since that saves space. At least that was my impression. After
> >> transcoding, Alias went from about 3.5GB to 20+GB, the same for a few
> >> other recordings. Now I would like very much to "undo" this (using
> >> nuvexport?), but more importantly, where did I go wrong?
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance!
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>   JJ
> >>
> >> ps. Sorry for this barrage of questions. Just some things that have
> >> been on my mind for a while.
> >>
> >
> > Well I don't know for MPEG2->MPEG4 but for RTJPEG->MPEG4 I got the same
> > things (well with even bigger files so that it filled my HD!), and I
> > figured out that by transcoding directly WITHOUT cutlist worked
> > correctly (much smaller files after transcoding). It seems that when
> > there is a cutlist things are going wild. I'll try to see if I can
> > bring this to the dev.
> > Bye
> > Manu
> >
> > 
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> I do Mpeg4 - Mpeg4 and it works well.  I have the conversion settings
> the same as the capture settings and removing commercials frees up about
> 100MB on a 500MB file.
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