[mythtv-users] MPEG-4 Simple@L3 and MPEG2 to MPEG-4 AVC H.264transcoding

Nathan Allen Stratton nathan at robotics.net
Wed Nov 30 08:02:15 EST 2005


On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Mike Grusin wrote:

> > I am using two Plextor MPEG-4 hardware boxes connected to my cable TV
> > set top boxes. The first problem I have is that if I go into Recording
> > Profiles and select USB MPEG-4 Encoder and edit the bit rate and save the
> > recordings still look the same and take up same amount of space. It does
> > not matter if I have it set to 100 kbps or 8000 (looks like it is using
> > 2200Kbps for everything).
>
> I'm a newbie and may be very wrong here, but I noticed the same thing
> (changing profiles doesn't change subsequent output).  However, when I quit
> and restart mythtv, THEN the changes seem to take effect.

Thanks, I will give that a try, any idea on how to transcode to H.264?

-Nathan


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