[mythtv-users] MythArchive Mastered!!

[Robin Gilks]

> On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Robin Gilks wrote:
>
>> Greetings
>>
>> Just a quick note to help others who may have fallen into the 'bad
>> Recording Profiles' trap. By setting the Image Size correctly I've cut
>> my
>> DVD making time from 4 hours to 25 minutes including commercial cutting
>> :-) The values I'm using (PAL !!) are:
>>
>> Default: 352x576 2800/4800
>> LiveTV:  352x576 2800/4800
>> HighQ:   720x576 4800/8000
>> LowQ:    352x288 2200/3600
>>
>> These values will all go straight to DVD without ffmpeg's 2 hours of
>> grinding.
>>
>> Works really well. One very happy bunny...
>>
>
> Anyone have NTSC?

According to the MythArchive python script, a reasonable selection for
NTSC image sizes would be:

352x480
352x480
720x480
352x240

The bit rates shouldn't need adjustment for the small difference in image
resolution (see  http://www.mediachance.com/dvdlab/tutorial/bitrate.html
for example)



-- 
Robin Gilks