[mythtv-users] H.264 transcoding

Rudy Zijlstra mythtv at grumpydevil.homelinux.org
Mon May 21 10:18:05 UTC 2007


Chad wrote:
> 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
>   
That is what i am explicitly doing with the above command. It fails on 
H.264 recordings though.


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