[mythtv-users] mythvideo, Q#1 (why "video"?)
John Sturgeon
john at sturgeonfamily.com
Tue May 25 20:32:03 EDT 2004
J. Donavan Stanley wrote:
> Douglas Beck wrote:
>
>>
>> I wrote a script that automatically converts all my recorded programs
>> to lower bitrate DivX files and stuffs them in the videos directory.
>> So I have hundreds of videos in my MythVideo list but only one or two
>> are movies.
>>
>
> Just out of curiosity... Why?
>
> Wouldn't you be better served by just using the built transcode and
> leaving them in the recodings section? Heck with .15 you'll even get
> nifty recording groups to organize them with.
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I can't answer for Douglas, but in my case I do the same thing. The
built in transcoding is hit-and-miss for HDTV content. I use ProjectX
to convert my files from MPEG-TS to MPEG-EP then use transcode to
convert to Xvid. Seems to be working well so far (slow, but well).
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