[mythtv-users] nuvexport/transcode settings survey for acceptable quality

[nate s]

Sorry OT, but what is the latest nuvexport, and where would one get
it?  the gentoo ebuilds that I've been using seem to be out of date.

-Nate


On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 11:37:16 -0800, Chris Petersen
<lists at forevermore.net> wrote:
> > 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:
> 
> Granted, I wrote nuvexport, so you can pretty easily guess that the
> defaults on xvid are my preference.  I based them on the file sizes of
> things that show up on bittorent/irc/etc.  I also use the multipass
> option to make sure that my files are all more or less the same size on
> disk.
> 
> The default xvid settings (multi or single pass are pretty close in
> filesize) produce files that are about 350M per hour of show (minus
> commercials is about 46 minutes) for 624x468 (a decent size for chopping
> off that broadcast border).  I can fit 27 half-hour shows on one dvd,
> and the quality is awsome.
> 
> As for those people who talk about using mencoder, I believe that it
> calls the same programs that transcode does.  But people are more than
> welcome to write more modules for nuvexport, as long as they work on
> both mpeg2 and true nuv files (mencoder doesn't work on nuv files).
> 
> -Chris
> 
> 
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