<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>I haven't had time to test the one pass approach. I wanted to convert about 30 shows before tonight so I just used mythlink (To get the readable names) and airvideo</div><div>to convert them. It just finished about 3 hours ago.</div><div><br></div><div>As far as making my suggestions the default I'd expect what I like to be what someone else doesn't.</div><div>I am a former sw engineer and in cases like this I would always go for a "control room" approach.</div><div>That is, lots of switches and options to select. With the right switches/options it doesn't have to become user</div><div>unfriendly. Heck, throw in a fancy GUI and most people will use the word "comprehensive" instead of "confusing" :-)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Diego</span></font></div></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>You can adjust the ffmpeg lines for mythexport all you want, just<br>modify the config. Feel free to mess around with single pass vs two<br>pass, and constant vs variable bitrates. Report back what you like<br>best in the end and I'll consider that as a new default. You may want<br>to look at the new default I am using in the next release:<br><a href="http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mythbuntu/mythexport/trunk/annotate/head:/usr/share/mythexport/configs/PortableH264HighRes.pm">http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mythbuntu/mythexport/trunk/annotate/head:/usr/share/mythexport/configs/PortableH264HighRes.pm</a><br>It utilizes ffmpeg's presets, and should run fine on your system as<br>long as you transform it to fit in the existing config structure (ie<br>rip out the ffmpeg from the beginning, etc). In the end you have all<br>the power in the world to use whatever ffmpeg options you want, don't<br>feel you have to stick to the presets at all. This should be useful<br>to you as well:<br>http://rob.opendot.cl/index.php/useful-stuff/ipod-video-guide/<br><br>As far as your 80% cpu issue, that is most likely caused by running as<br>nice -19, which is by design. We don't want mythexport eating all<br>your cpu and causing a recording issue.<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br>mythtv-users@mythtv.org<br>http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users<br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>