[mythtv-users] OT: Anybody create CVDs on Linux?

[Chris Petersen]

> Fabulous!  If I get a decent command working, I'll send it to you.  I 
> also have a change in my copy that eliminates the use of mp2enc for 
> SVCD audio transcoding and just uses ffmpeg to do the sound 
> transcoding.  Now the question is, toolame was preferred over mp2enc, 
> but now which would be the preferred encoder -- toolame or ffmpeg?

honestly, no clue there...  does ffmpeg use the LAME engine for
encoding?

> Oh, I also changed the toolame command to insert a call to sox for 
> resampling.  Probably want to make the output sample rate a user-input 
> parameter and put some logic in there -- no need to resample if in/out 
> rates are the same.  ffmpeg can resample on its own, which is why I 
> tried using it in the first place.

Well, svcd audio MUST be 44.1 on output.  But the sox will definitely
help those who don't have that for input (I tried looking into that, but
at some point people stopped expressing interest).

guess I'll need to poke around and see if ffmpeg is as good as toolame
or not - unless someone else already knows and is willing to enlighten
me.

> I've attached my version for you to compare; it could probably use to be 
> cleaned up a bit.  It's just a quick hack, really, but it's been 
> working for me for a while.

I'll take a look - thanks.  nuvexport isn't exactly the nicest code to
start with - though I'd hope that's mainly due to perl's inability to
cleanly handle multiple packages in the same file.

-Chris