[mythtv-users] Mythtranscode and H264?

[Kenni Lund]

Den 01/05/2013 07.18 skrev "Alexander Puchmayr" <
alexander.puchmayr at linznet.at>:
>
> Am Dienstag, 30. April 2013, 14:43:02 schrieb Raymond Wagner:
> > > From: Alexander Puchmayr
> > > Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 2:17 PM
> > >
> > > Mythtranscode (I'm using 0.25) seems to have trouble with H264, when
> > > trying to convert a mpeg-ts with h264 (as received from my cable tv
> > > provider), it failes with
> > >
> > > transcode.cpp:1326 (TranscodeFile) - Unknown video codec: H.264
> > >
> > > Is there a way to transcode material with h264?
> > > Is it supported in 0.26?
> >
> > It _should_ work, but there is really no reason to want to do this.
> > Anything MythTranscode has the ability to transcode into will be larger
and
> > lower quality than what you already have.
> >
>
> Removing commercials is reason enough for me to want that ...
>

No... As Raymond already said, anything that mythtranscode generates will
result in larger files and lower quality. If you just want to cut out
commercials, try the Lossless Cut script instead:
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Lossless_Cut

Best regards
Kenni
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