[mythtv] Newbie questions about mpeg2->mpeg2 transcode.

Britt Houser britthouser at gmail.com
Sat May 22 17:33:10 EDT 2004


I was able to make this work using the burntocd script, however, this
required re-encoding the entire program, and took days on my puny CPU.
 So there is no simple way around this yet.  I'll stay tuned.  Thanks
for all the good info!

britt

On Sat, 22 May 2004 10:06:07 -0800, Dan Morphis <dan at milkcarton.com> wrote:
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> 
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> Geoffrey Hausheer wrote:
> 
> >  On Sat, 22 May 2004 11:25:21 -0400, "Britt Houser" said:
> >
> > > Ok, thanks for the clarification. I thought that hitting X in the
> > > frontend was like typing 'mythtranscode' from the command line, but
> > > I see they are two different things.
> >
> >  Umm, I think I may have just added to your confusion here.
> >
> > > My ultimate goal here is to take stuff I've recorded, edit out the
> > > commercials, and 'export' them out of myth and store them on a
> > > seperate file server. Then I NFS mount this directory on the
> > > fileserver under /myth/videos and I can watch them that way.
> >
> >  Okay.
> >
> > > So after I mark these commercials, I hit X, and the transocoding
> > > will start, and the resulting file will be mpeg2?
> > >
> >  Umm, no. Sadly, there is no straight forward way to do this today.
> >
> >  You have a few options: a) convert to divx/xvid. I think nuvexport
> >  or mythencode will do this for you b) convert to mpeg4/nuv.
> nuvexport will.  And it works really well to boot!  I was really really
> impressed w/ it.
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