[mythtv-users] Slightly OT: Burning an MPEG2 file that is too large

William wmunson at rochester.rr.com
Sat Jan 14 13:31:31 UTC 2006


> Hi All,
> 
> I am trying to burn a MPEG2 recording exported by nuvexport, 
> but it is too large to go on a single layer disc!
> 
> I remember just the other day reading about a linux command 
> line tool that can reduce the bitrate of a mpeg2 file.  All 
> you had to do basically was tell it what factor to reduce it 
> by, such as '2' would halve the effective file size, '1' 
> would be pointless and '1.2' would make it 20% smaller.
> 
>
The program you want is called tcrequant and its part of the mjpegtools
package.




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