<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 9, 2007 7:16 PM, Dan Wilson <<a href="mailto:dwilson@dslextreme.com">dwilson@dslextreme.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">On 11/9/2007 at 6:31 PM Chris Isip wrote:<br><br>> I'm hitting the limits of my file storage. I was wondering if there is<br>> a<br>> way that I can transcode the mpeg2 programs to mpeg4 and still let the
<br>> videos be viewable in mythtv "Watch Recordings".<br>><br>> Thanks<br>> Chris<br>><br><br></div></div>I use the internal transcoding available in myth to convert mpeg2 into mpeg4. I get about 50% reduction in size, bringing an hour of SD tv down to about 1 GB.
<br><br>HTH,<br><font color="#888888"><br>Dan.<br></font><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">
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1.43 GB to 200 MB for a 1 hour SD show. I found a ffmpeg formula for transoding to ipod touch and it did just that. The quality was acceptable for playback fullscreen on my TV as well , but mythtv will not play it ( I tried renaming the transcoded file to the original filename).
<br></div></div><br>Has anybody used ffmpeg or mencoder to achieve this. I'm not really sure what myth thinks the video should be before it can play it. Theres probably going to be some database edits as well. <br>
<br>Thanks<br>Chris<br><br>