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

[Neil Salstrom]

On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Robert Houghton <robbadler at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think the different distros ship with different presets. Fedora used to
> ship an HQ preset, so it still exists on my box. "Slow" and "main" also run
> fine for me. The differences only really matter if you are trying to tune
> the file to a specific decoder (like ps3 or android) that may not support
> some x264 flags.
>
> I build my own ffmpeg with libx264 and libfaac from git. There are tutorials
> all over the net on how to re-package from git to .deb or .rpm for your
> distro of choice.
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I think you are correct.  I may compile both ffmpeg and x264 myself.
I had some issues with the transcoding I did.

First, the transcode failed on a file that had two audio tracks.
Second, in the file that finished encoding had really distorted audio.
 I'm wondering if a more recent ffmpeg / x264 has fixes for those
issues.