[mythtv-users] HDTV Transcode Video - keep audio

[Mudit Wahal]

I know that its possible if you use mencoder to preserve the audio as
AC3. I used it on my mythbox sometime back. Nowadays I use autogk as a
matter of convience, but it runs on windows.

On 7/8/06, Richard Freeman <r-mythtv at thefreemanclan.net> wrote:
> I have a HDTV capture card (uses DVB drivers), and I'm mainly interested
> in using it for the benefit of the AC3 surround (plus the digital TV
> quality).  I don't have any high-def TVs, so the extra video bandwidth
> is just a waste of space.  Additionally, playback is marginal at best on
> an EPIA system (my front end).
>
> Is there any easy to either directly downsample the recorded video
> stream to 480p, or (not as nice) transcode it to 480p WHILE KEEPING THE
> AUDIO STREAM IN AC3?
>
> It looks like transcoding to MPEG-4 and dropping the resolution is
> pretty straightforward.  However, my only audio options are uncompressed
> or MP3, and neither is probably acceptable (I'm guessing uncompressed
> with just turn it into a 2-channel wav file).  Is there an easy way to
> configure this, or alternatively is there at least an automatic way to
> accomplish this using user-jobs or a cron job on the backend?
>
> It seems like it should be reasonably straightforward to have the
> transcoder do an audio pass-through.
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