[mythtv] mythtranscode defaults

Keith C mythtv at keithandjill.com
Thu Oct 13 18:53:16 UTC 2005


On Oct 13, 2005, at 1:47 PM, Stuart Auchterlonie wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 02:40:20PM -0400, Chris Pinkham wrote:
>
>>
>> Is that code stable enough?  I though I'd seen quite a few posts  
>> where users were
>> getting errors with it because it didn't like the source audio  
>> format.
>> Probably DVB users.  It wasn't that high on my todo list to look  
>> into it since I
>> never use mpeg2->mpeg2.
>>
>>
>
> I should add mpeg2 -> whatever is default (nuv?)
> does horrible things.... To the extent mplayer dies with
> horrible errors trying to playback the result....
>

Oh, thats what I'm running in to.  Trying to transcode my HD-3000  
recordings to mpeg4 causes video so messed up that the backend dies  
trying to generate a thumbnail from it.

Keith C


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