[mythtv-users] Transcoding questions

[Chris Petersen]

Steve Peters - Priority Electronics wrote:
> Mencoder is much much slower though, but if you're not doing too much
> encoding, I think it's worth the tradeoff. To give you an example, I encoded
> a few movies to xvid using ffmpeg, then with mencoder, all other settings
> being the same, the ffmpeg files were 2.5 to 3GB each...not much savings
> over just using myth's built-in transcoding function. When I did the
> transcoding using mencoder, the same videos came out to around 500MB to
> 800MB, and even looked better too.

If that's the case, something's either wrong with ffmpeg or the
parameters that nuvexport passes to it.  The main problem is that ffmpeg
keeps changing their commandline parameters so I can't keep up with it.

mencoder and ffmpeg use the *same* routines for doing the encoding, so
in this case it's just a matter of mencoder having some better defaults
that nuvexport isn't setting (because I don't know enough about video
encoding to know what they are).

The reason the mencoder isn't recommended by me (the author) is that I
could never get it working.  Other people seem to have no trouble, and
I'd love to see more options added to the mencoder export modes.

-Chris

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