I use x264 and .mkv via handbrake using this user job<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Handbrake_userjob">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Handbrake_userjob</a></div><div><br></div><div>Has worked great for me. <br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Josh Rosenberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mythtv@desh.info" target="_blank">mythtv@desh.info</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 11:53 AM, <<a href="mailto:mythtv-users-request@mythtv.org">mythtv-users-request@mythtv.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> Message: 5<br>
> Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 09:52:47 -0400<br>
> From: "Peter Bennett (cats22)" <<a href="mailto:cats22@comcast.net">cats22@comcast.net</a>><br>
> To: <a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br>
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Convert mpg to avi<br>
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> On 09/18/2012 03:29 PM, <a href="mailto:reubencrane@gmail.com">reubencrane@gmail.com</a> wrote:<br>
>> Hello,<br>
>><br>
>> I am running mythtv on freebsd. Works great but I am having trouble<br>
>> doing video conversion. I successfully used mythtranscode (had to add<br>
>> season, episode, and another column to the recorder table) to cut<br>
>> commericials and am now trying to use mencoder to convert the<br>
>> resulting mpg to avi(mpeg4 and mp3) I can do a single pass but I<br>
>> wasn't to happy with video quality during scenes with motion. So now I<br>
>> am trying 2 and 3 passes but this always fails on second or third<br>
>> pass. Most of the information I have googled seems dated. So could<br>
>> someone share their preferred method to convert mythtv mpg to<br>
>> reasonable quality file?<br>
>><br>
>> Thanks,<br>
>> Reuben<br>
> I have been doing a lot of this and I am happy to help. However, I<br>
> recommend using x264 and mkv. This gives better quality, better<br>
> compression and no audio / video sync issues. The only reason for using<br>
> avi and xvid is in case you plan to create SD (720x480 or less) and burn<br>
> them onto DVD disks to watch on a standalone DVD player.<br>
> Let me know if you want the method for xvid/avi or x264/mkv. I have them<br>
> both figured out and get good results.<br>
><br>
> Peter<br>
<br>
</div>I would very much like to see your x264/mkv method; thanks for the offer!<br>
<br>
One question: Why .mkv over .mpeg? Can .mpeg containers not support<br>
x264, or is this a preference based on licensing, or something else?<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Josh<br>
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