[mythtv-users] nuvexport/transcode settings survey for
acceptablequality
VJ
vj at vijaygill.homelinux.net
Fri Nov 26 15:07:14 UTC 2004
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Vollmar" <matt at vollmars.com>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Friday, November 26, 2004 2:53 PM
Subject: [mythtv-users] nuvexport/transcode settings survey for
acceptablequality
> I would like to take a quick survey to find out what settings you guys
> find acceptable for exporting movies. I have several (16 or so) movies
> that I want to export to a smaller format to save space. Here are my
> questions:
>
> 1) What format do you use to retain the most quality?
> 2) What bitrates for video and audio?
> 3) Do you use 2-pass or 1-pass?
> 4) Any gotchas?
> 5) What is the size you get per hour of video?
>
> I've learned quite a bit about ffmpeg recently for DVD-quality exports,
> but i don't really want these movies to be that big. I would like to
> fit 4 movies per DVD if possible (not necessarily in MPEG format -- I'm
> using Movix).
>
> Thanks for any comments you can offer.
>
> Matt
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My suggestion would be to use mencoder + XviD. ffmpeg's lavc cannot match
the quality of XviD at any given bitrate. I used to encode my recordings
(The Simpsons and Futurama) and one episode used to be 200Mb plus but to get
the same quality, I use XviD now and get files of about 165-172 Mb.
Regards from
VJ
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