[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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