[mythtv-users] Encoding to h264 to save space

Phill Edwards philledwards at gmail.com
Wed Feb 20 09:56:37 UTC 2008


How are people watching these transcoded recordings? Are you using
MythVideo or do they somehow appear under Watch Recordings (if so,
how)?

Also, one of the posters mentioned they were getting down to 400MB per
30 mins. Using the in-built transcoder (Autodetect from MPEG2 -->
MPEG4) I'm getting approx 550MB per 30 minutes, so it doesn't sound
like an enormous saving to go to all this trouble to get h264 - are
there other benefits of this aside from the space savings?

My transcode settings are:
Bitrate = 2500
Max Quality = 2
Min Quality = 15
Scale bitrate for frame size = off
Max quality diff between frames = 3
Enable high quality encoding = on
Enable interlaced DCT encoding = off
Enable 4MV encoding = on
Enable interlaced motion estimation = off

Regards,
Phill


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