[mythtv-users] Kinda off-topic mpeg encoder question

[Ed Benckert]

>>The whole reason I want to do this is to compress AVI's I have from home
>>video (DV capture of wedding videos, family videos etc), and convert them to
>>mpgs so I can view them in MythVideo and not take up 4 gigs of disk space
>>for 20 minutes of DVD quality video... encoding it to mpg would save massive
>>amounts of space, and although I CAN do it software, like I said... it takes
>>about 6 hours on my 2ghz processor to encode about 90 minutes of avi.
> 
> 
> Why MPEG2?  If you want to view it in MythVideo, MPEG4 will suffice.  It
> encodes a lot faster than MPEG2 and takes up less space.  A 2GHz processor
> should happily encode 640x480 MPEG4 video in better than real time.  You
> could probably even do two-pass encoding (somewhat higher quality) in just
> a bit more than real time.

I intend to do MPEG4 for MythVideo, but I also want to be able to burn 
select things to DVD, so I'd need MPEG2 also.