[mythtv-users] Need advice for converting files for Android viewing

Raymond Wagner raymond at wagnerrp.com
Sun Mar 20 22:10:17 UTC 2011


On 3/20/2011 17:18, Craig Huff wrote:
> The file was an OTA capture of a three hour movie and my system is based on an Athlon 64 3200+.  I only got as far as 0.27% done when the ETA got up over 11.5 hrs and decided to look for advice, since that just wouldn't do.
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> Does it really take that much time/compute power to transcode a file, or are there options I need to change/add?

Yes.  1/4 real time for a single pass h264 encode of standard definition 
content with moderate quality settings on that processor is very reasonable.


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