[mythtv-users] Transcoding SD MPEG2 to H.264---recommendations?

[John Pilkington]

On 30/11/10 06:41, sonofzev at iinet.net.au wrote:
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> I know I'm jumping in quite late, but have you tried the mythnuv2mkv.sh script..
> I've been using it for over a year and it's generally fantastic..
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I'm jumping in late, too, and rather diffidently; but you might find my 
script at http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Mythcutprojectx useful as a test 
cleaner-for-mpeg2-recordings, or perhaps as a basis for an h264 
transcoder.  It replaces the original file with a Myth-aware cleaned 
copy.  And note that there is a later version of ProjectX than the one 
that is easiest to find!

One point I noticed in Dave Newman's script might affect later use of 
its output.  I find that ProjectX doesn't like working with mpeg2 files 
concatenated with 'cat'.  It has problems with the timestamps and 
returns only the first section. Ymmv. It's ok if everything is demuxed 
in sequence and then remuxed.

John P