[mythtv-users] Little gems on MythTV wiki

jedi jedi at mishnet.org
Mon Feb 22 15:46:46 UTC 2010


On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 08:41:05AM -0600, Brent Bolin wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 8:21 AM, Christopher Meredith
> <chmeredith at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 8:12 AM, Brent Bolin <brent.bolin at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 7:44 AM, Christopher Meredith
> >> <chmeredith at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 7:24 AM, Brent Bolin <brent.bolin at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>> Ran across this info -
[deletia]
> >> Does "Also, you should use either the mp4 or mkv containers for H264"
> >> make a quality difference?
> >
> > None at all. But modern container formats are more efficient and
> > introduce greater possibilities. At least Matroska allows multiple
> > streams, embedded subtitles, chapters, attachments, etc. It can also
> > reduce confusion (such as here) where you're working with data that is
> > not typically found in a .mpg file.
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> Thanks for your quick reply.  Can you give me the cli syntax to join 2
> mp4 video files together.  There are many arguments for this command.

...yes. That would be a handy one. I have found some fan produced videos
where they thought it would be a good idea to split the show into multiple
pieces. I can't really fathom why they thought it was a good idea.


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