[mythtv-users] H.264 transcoding

Chad masterclc at gmail.com
Mon May 21 00:49:33 UTC 2007


On 5/20/07, Rudy Zijlstra <mythtv at grumpydevil.homelinux.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> For films i want to store i normally set cutpoints to cut out pre-roll,
> post-roll and any advertisements. Then i do a "mythtranscode
> --honorcutlist --showprogress -e ps -c xxx -s "date" -o <outfile>" to
> get a nice to watch movie.
>
> This works well on MPEG2, but on H.264 recordings this fails.
>
> Any suggestions? I have no wish to change the coding, quit happy with
> the H.264 encoding (any transcoding will only increase file size or
> reduce quality).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rudy
> _______________________________________________

On my mpeg2 recordings I use the transcode option to remove my
commercials from the programs I want to store.  I'm away from my
system right now but the option is in the first screen of the
transcoder to just encode around cutpoints.  Works great for me.

-Chad


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