[mythtv-users] Suggest transcode settings

[John Pilkington]

On 12/02/14 12:49, Phil Wild wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a heap of home video I want to transcode. Currently the files are
> consuming around 12GB per hour. I'd like to get that down to around
> 2-3GB/hour without losing too much quality. I'd also prefer not to drop
> the resolution but rather increase/change compression algorithms etc.
>
> I've been googling but haven't found anything really helpful yet. I'm
> sure one of the very smart people on here can give me an answer from
> their heads and save me a heap of time trial/erroring etc.
>
> I'm guessing ffmpeg is the best tool for the job?
>

I can't claim to fit your hoped-for target respondee and I haven't tried 
any of these, but I recently came across this grab-bag of ffmpeg command 
lines.  You might find something useful there.

google presets-libavcodec54_v3.wff

HTH

John P