[mythtv-users] Compressing PVR-x50 SD video using Handbrake---any advice?

[HP-mini]

On Wed, 2013-05-01 at 12:39 -0400, f-myth-users at media.mit.edu wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 01 May 2013 08:58:27 -0400
>     > From: Dan Wilga <mythtv-users2 at dwilga-linux1.amherst.edu>
> 
>     > On 5/1/13 4:08 AM, Gordon McCrae wrote:
>     > > HandBrakeCLI -i "InpitFile.mpg"  --preset="Normal" -o "OutpufFile.mp4"
> 
> That didn't spit out any errors, but the audio was well over a minute
> ahead of the video by around 5 minutes in and kept drifting like that.
> 
>     > I don't care for the presets in HandBrake, but I've had great success 
>     > with both 1080i and SD content using this:
> 
>     > HandBrakeCLI -f mkv -e x264 -q 20 -6 stereo -5 -E faac -w 720 -v 1 -i 
>     > [INPUTFILE] -o [OUTPUTFILE]
> 
> Same with this one.

Can you make a 50-100MB clip available ?
Cut with "dd" & do not cut off the beginning.
Part of the problem could be the messy recording start.

There are a few PTS timing fix options in ffmpeg.
Brett