[mythtv-users] Another Stupid Question

[David Whyte]

On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 3:06 PM, The GUIGuy <linux at finalfiler.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have a number of PAL TV recordings in 1280 X 720 (16:9) resolution. They
> look quite excellent on the giant TV.
>
> I would like to get them out of Myth with the resolution preserved. Each
> file weighs in around 4.6G
>
> However, if I use mytharchive and attempt to  burn the files to DVD,
> mytharchive attempts to reduce resolution to 720X576 and then promptly
> crashes.
>
> Similarly, if I use nuvexport --transcode or --ffmpeg to export to DVD, it
> will reduce the resolution. Transcoding to xvid etc loses too much of the
> quality for my liking. In any case this would take weeks of processing it
> seems.
>
> So, any suggestions how I could export/ transcode the files from recordedTV
> to some standard format (mpeg?) AND preserve the original higher resolution?
>


I am by no means an expert, but couldn't you use a dual layer DVD to
get each one on a disk?  Or, is there any commercials or anything you
can mark and then do a loss-less transcode to remove them and reduce
the file size closer to a DVD size???