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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 3:32 AM, Sven Bretfeld <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sven.bretfeld@gmx.ch">sven.bretfeld@gmx.ch</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Hi all<br><br>This is a newbie question. What I want to do is simple. I need a User<br>Job that:<br><br>1. transcodes a MythTV recording, honoring the cutlist<br>
<br>2. reduces the file size /drastically/ (quality is secondary)<br><br>3. moves (or copies) the file to the videos directory<br><br>4. (looks for or keeps metadata information)<br><br>Surely like many newbies, I'm confused by the information I can get on<br>
<a href="http://mythtv.org/" target="_blank">mythtv.org</a> and similar websites. These are doubtlessly informative for<br>professionals, but seem to be less oriented towards solutions for the<br>ordinary user, and, moreover, often enough refer to older MythTV<br>
versions. Also Mythbuntu 10.4 seems not to have a preconfigured solution<br>for this surely highly wanted task for many people.<br><br>What is the best way to keep recordings as videos with a reduced file<br>size?<br><br>
Thank you very much for suggestions<br><br>Sven<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" target="_blank">http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br>
</blockquote></div><br>You should look at mythnuv2mkv (<a href="http://web.aanet.com.au/~auric/?q=node/6">http://web.aanet.com.au/~auric/?q=node/6</a>). It works for me. (But I am not on .23 yet)