[mythtv-users] Transcoding/cutting down file size

[belcampo]

Jim Stichnoth wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Greg Zornetzer
> <gzornetzer.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Bobby,
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Bobby Gill <bobbygill at rogers.com> wrote:
>>> (Sparked from the "state of lossless H.264 cutting" thread)
>>>
>>> So just to clarify (considering going HD by end of year), there is no
>>> "built-in" means of transcoding a, say, 60min ep[43 mins cut down] into a
>>> ~1.1gb file as one would find shows via torrent? (Just an example, please
>>> don't flog me for merely bringing it up).
>> What you are describing works just fine for MPEG2 streams pulled off OTA
>> ATSC or QAM in the United States.  It's just that you cannot apparently do
>> this for h264 encoded recordings (from other posts in that thread).  I am
>> currently able to do what you describe using 0.21-fixes on locally broadcast
>> HD channels.
>> -Greg
> 
> I found that lossless cutting also works for recordings that are first
> transcoded to mpeg4.  With the PVR-150 I used to have, I would need to
> first transcode to mpeg4
That ain't h264 stuff, which we're talking about.
  and then do the lossless transcode, because
> closed captions would get out of sync if I did the lossless transcode
> first.
> 
> Jim
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