[mythtv-users] nuvexport/transcode settings survey for acceptablequality

[nate s]

I've been using XviD, with multipass, 1024 vid bitrate, 128 audio
bitrate, and deinterlacing, and an hour show comes out to about
300-400 megs, at excellent quality,  but it does take a bit long (~3-4
hours)

-Nate 


On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 11:34:09 -0500, Matt Vollmar <matt at vollmars.com> wrote:
> VJ wrote:
> 
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> >----- 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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> What options, bitrates, etc do you use?  If you could just post one of
> your command lines, that would be totally fine.  I want to test a few
> different ones out, and your size estimates pretty much rock.
> 
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> 
> Matt
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