[mythtv-users] Downscale HD recordings with ffmpeg

[Nick Rout]

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 4:18 AM, Philippe Van Der Gucht
<philippe at vandergucht.org> wrote:
> Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> 2009/3/16 Philippe Van Der Gucht <philippe at vandergucht.org
>> <mailto:philippe at vandergucht.org>>
>>
>>    What about the options? Are they any good?
>>
>>
>> What about using mencoder ?
>>
>> it supports x264 no ?
>
> Using mencoder was my first reflex as I normally used it for all my video
> conversion needs. But with a hd h.264 recording it is seemingly completely
> unresponsive on my system. It just opens an out file and uses 100% cpu time.
> I have to issue a kill -9 to end it.

I haven't tried either of these options, but you could also try
HandBrakeCLI or avidemux_cli.