[mythtv-users] Re: Transcoding MPEG4 to MPEG4?

Jason Parekh jasonparekh at gmail.com
Sat Jul 17 14:15:21 EDT 2004


> 
> Then, on that same RTjpeg transcoded file, I went back to MPEG4 and
> the lower bitrate higher quality, and that worked too; it's just that
> the direct MPEG4->MPEG4 doesn't work for me..
> 
> Does anyone have any input on this?
> 

Well, after looking through the mythtranscode source code I found that
if the source and target (for lack of better words?) codec are the
same, then it will just copy the video directly rather than
re-encoding.

I've made a patch that will let you bypass this video copy so that
even if the source and target codec are the same, it will re-encode. 
Perhaps a better solution to this would be to only video copy if the
codec settings are the same as well..

Anyway, I will post a patch to the dev list if any of you are interested..

Jason


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