[mythtv-users] Re: Transcoding... first blood (Transcoding resulted in larger file)

Jay R. Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Wed Aug 18 12:44:42 EDT 2004


On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 09:30:59AM -0700, Chris Vargas wrote:
> If you want to make a DVD from your recordings, and
> you're using a PVR-250 or -350, your recordings are
> already in MPEG2 format, so there's no real need to
> transcode.

I believe that's only true if your recording settings are 720x480, no?

> Default setting is to transcode MPEG2->RTJPEG which
> indeed makes a much larger file (great for clean
> editing, not so great for disk space):
> 
> http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-21.html#ss21.13

That entry is a little rough on how to *change* which one's the
default; important to us PVR people.  Any expansion?

> Now, since the commercials only get cut out when you
> transcode, you're really looking for something that
> will edit the MPEG2 according to the commercial cut
> list while leaving the file as an MPEG2. Someone just
> announced such a script to the list a couple days ago:
> 
> http://gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/80280

But you'd have to run this externally to Myth, right?

We don't really care about the spots here at Potato Central; they're
kinda fun to watch, sometimes.  It's just a size thing.

Cheers,
-- jra
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