[mythtv-users] nuvexport/transcode how long to convert?

[Chris Petersen]

> That mentions some speed issues, and also a tag about splitting
> thefiles up to fit on CD (when it runs too large)... To save me
> bangingmy head on this, Chris do you know if this would work with
> yourscript? If so, I can try to stick it in there...

my script already auto-splits at 795 megs, which should result in a bin
file of about 805 megs, which fits perfectly onto a 700 meg CD.  (keep
in mind that SVCD's are burned as streams, and thus you gain about 100
megs of space that would normally be used for error checking).  I'll
eventually make this size an option, but I haven't run into any 700 meg
CD's that  won't burn that much data.

The splitting happens with mpeg2enc's --sequence-length option.  With
this set, tcmplex (and hopefully mplex, though as I keep telling people,
it doesn't work so well with svcd) will automatically split up the files
as it multiplexes them.

-Chris