[mythtv-users] Suggested bitrate for transcoding HD Mpeg 2 to Mpeg 4

[Neil Salstrom]

On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Robert Houghton <robbadler at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Here is the script I wrote and use. It is mostly up to date and is currently
> working in 0.24 from git
>
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/High_Quality_Transcode
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Your script intrigued me so I decided to give it a go.  I ran the
script and got this error (I'm running 0.24-fixes from git):

mythtv at htpc:~$ ./x264_transcode_high.pl -f 1121_20100829203000.mpg
/multimedia/metadata/Banners/1121_20100829203000.mpg does not exist
/multimedia/metadata/Coverart/1121_20100829203000.mpg does not exist
sh: /usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/ttvdb.py: not found
/video/The_Simpsons_08.29.2010.mp4 seems unique
FFmpeg version SVN-r25838, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 the FFmpeg developers
  built on Jan 21 2011 08:21:58 with gcc 4.4.5
  configuration: --enable-libdc1394 --prefix=/usr
--extra-cflags='-Wall -g ' --cc='ccache cc' --enable-shared
--enable-libmp3lame --enable-gpl --enable-libvorbis --enable-pthreads
--enable-libfaac --enable-libxvid --enable-postproc --enable-x11grab
--enable-libgsm --enable-libtheora --enable-libopencore-amrnb
--enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libx264 --enable-libspeex
--enable-nonfree --disable-stripping --enable-avfilter
--enable-libdirac --disable-decoder=libdirac --enable-libschroedinger
--disable-encoder=libschroedinger --enable-version3
--enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libvpx --enable-librtmp
--extra-libs=-lgcrypt --disable-altivec --disable-armv5te
--disable-armv6 --disable-vis
  libavutil     50.33. 0 / 50.33. 0
  libavcore      0.14. 0 /  0.14. 0
  libavcodec    52.97. 2 / 52.97. 2
  libavformat   52.87. 1 / 52.87. 1
  libavdevice   52. 2. 2 / 52. 2. 2
  libavfilter    1.65. 0 /  1.65. 0
  libswscale     0.12. 0 /  0.12. 0
  libpostproc   51. 2. 0 / 51. 2. 0
Input #0, mpegts, from '1121_20100829203000.mpg':
  Duration: 00:29:56.80, start: 57692.899144, bitrate: 14635 kb/s
  Program 1
    Stream #0.0[0x31]: Video: mpeg2video, yuv420p, 1280x720 [PAR 1:1
DAR 16:9], 38800 kb/s, 59.96 fps, 59.94 tbr, 90k tbn, 119.88 tbc
    Stream #0.1[0x34](eng): Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, 5.1, s16, 448 kb/s
File for preset 'hq' not found
Transcode failed

mythtv at htpc:~$

Any ideas?  I did this by file name because I was not sure what the
job number was.  Can you give any insight as to what may be going on?

Thanks!!!