[mythtv-users] Working NexusOne & Droid Mythexport profile

[Nick Morrott]

On 18 March 2010 15:08, Jeff Artz <jeffa.myth at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Patrick Davila <pdavila at thelinuxlink.net>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hello all,
>> I have a working Mythexport profile that works with either the NexusOne or
>> Droid without issue. In the Mythexport setup select 'custom' and name it
>> 'Android'. This will create a skeleton entry in 'mythexport_settings.cfg'.
>> Add the following to the ffmpegArgs line:
>> 'ffmpegArgs=-aspect 16:9 -s 800x480 -vcodec libx264 -b 480k -r 13
>> -deinterlace -acodec libfaac -ab 128k -sameq -pass 1 -f rawvideo -an -y
>> /dev/null | -aspect 16:9 -s 800x480 -vcodec libx264 -b 480k -r 13
>> -deinterlace -acodec libfaac -ab 128k -ac 2 -sameq -pass 2'
>>
>
> Pat,
>   This sounds great!  I can't wait to give it a try...   BTW: Have you tried
> using the native resolution resoution of the Droid (852x480) instead of
> 800x480?  ;-)

For best results with x264, I think you'd want height and width both
multiples of 16. This avoids any internal padding/cropping within the
file when encoding. This doesn't mean that you couldn't force the
resolution to 852x480 though, and you may not even notice any
difference.

Cheers,
Nick

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