[mythtv-users] Transcoding Nuv Files to Other Formats

ffrr ffrr at tpg.com.au
Thu Apr 6 08:34:36 UTC 2006


Kevin Slater wrote:

> Can you go into some detail about what you have to do to make this 
> happen? I have a new Palm TX and I'd love to be able to catch up on my 
> Good Eats episodes during lunch at work. Can you show an example of 
> the command line options you use to do the actual transcode? (Mplayer 
> / Mencoder must have more options than any other piece of software 
> I've used.)
>
> ...Kevin
>


I too have a Tx and the following works well for me.... (this is from a 
'hints' file I maintain for my own use as I forget stuff too easily)





Some example ways to convert myth recordings to PDA (mpeg4)
suitable format and size


ffmpeg -i "$1" -b 200 -ab 96 -s 480x270 "$2"

mencoder -o "$2" -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:mbd=2:turbo:vbitrate=250:abitrate=96 
 -vf scale=480:270 -af volnorm -oac lavc -vf-pre pp=lb "$1"

to spawn it off as a separate process...
konsole -e mencoder -o /mnt/mythdata/video_small/"$1".mpg -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:mbd=2:turbo:vqmax=10:vbitrate=250:abitrate=128 -vf scale=480:270 -af volnorm -oac lavc -vf-pre pp=lb "$1" &





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