[mythtv-users] MythArchive re-encoding/quantizing options
Paul Harrison
mythtv at dsl.pipex.com
Tue May 9 14:37:35 EDT 2006
James Armstrong wrote:
> I just marked to HD shows (House) at 6 gigs a piece and set them to
> record on a single layer DVD (4.5g). After all was said and done, I
> ended up with roughly 2 gigs of files. Is there any way to get them
> closer to the full DVD size so they are not compresses as much? Is the
> re-encoding quantizing or whatever just making a best guess what factor
> to use and could it be tweaked better?
>
> Thanks,
> James
>
You can't just re-quantize HD because the video resolution is not DVD
compliant its got to be re-encoded. At the moment the re-encode
parameters are hard coded into the script. In the future you will be
able to choose a profile you would like to use to re-encode a file.
Paul H.
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