[mythtv-users] MythArchive output quality is poor for SD and HQ profiles

[Mike]

Leighton Brough wrote:
> MythTV wrote:
>   
>> Newer ffmpeg versions no longer take video bitrates in kbits/s.  It now
>> takes it in bits/s. Try editing the mytharchive encoder profiles and adding
>> three zeroes onto all of the bitrates.  I think this is fixed in SVN but not
>> fixes-0.20.
>>   
>>     
> Thanks - that fixed it. I added a "k" to the "-b" options in the 
> /usr/local/share/mythtv/mytharchive/encoder_profiles/* files (and also 
> fixed my copy of the source, for the next build and install).
>
> I've tried both the SD and LP options tonight and the results are 
> excellent once the bitrate parameter for ffmpeg is fixed.
>
> Cheers,
> Leighton
>   
Works for me too... Being as this appears to work on both older and 
newer versions of ffmpeg... I wonder why it isn't backported into 
0.20-fixes branch.

-Mike