<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 24/09/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Paul Harrison</b> <<a href="mailto:mythtv@dsl.pipex.com">mythtv@dsl.pipex.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Gary Dawes wrote:<br>> Whenever I export a recording from my analogue (bt878) card, the<br>> converted video is extremely blocky and pixilated, like a very low res<br>> video at a high zoom. Doesn't matter if it's mpeg-4 or rtjpeg, or if
<br>> I'm converting to mpeg-2, or divx the result is the same. Nuvexport<br>> and mytharchive produce the same output. I've tried various<br>> combinations of settings covering most options with nuvexport.<br>>
<br>> I've tried playing the files in a variety of players on linux and<br>> windows, and a dvd made using mytharchive, on a standalone dvd player.<br>><br>> I've never had a problem previously, I have several mpeg-2 files which
<br>> have been converted in the past. The problem is apparent on<br>> recordings recorded with either myth 0.20 or 0.19<br>><br>> I'm running the latest release of knoppmyth, along with myth 0.20, the<br>> latest ffmpeg from svn (updated yesterday), and the the latest nuvexport.
<br>><br>> Has anybody else had similar problems or any ideas?<br>><br>> thanks<br>><br>> gary<br>><br><br>ffmpeg changed the meaning of the bitrate parameter -b from meaning<br>Kbits/sec to bits/sec which is going to cause a few people some
<br>headaches I think. If you add the k suffix to the -b parameter then that<br>should correct things. eg -b 5000 becomes -b 5000k<br><br>I wonder if the k and M suffixes will also work for older versions of<br>ffmpeg? Would make the fix a lot easier if it does otherwise it means
<br>having to detect what version of ffmpeg is available and change the<br>parameter accordingly.<br><br>Paul H.<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">
mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br><a href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br></blockquote></div><br>thanks paul, that did the trick. much appreciated
<br><br>gary<br>