[mythtv-users] Tran-splode?

Brian LeFevre blefevre at ida.net
Fri Jan 14 09:34:01 EST 2005


manu wrote:
> Le 13.01.2005 09:08:14, John Johnson a écrit :
> 
>> After recording some shows (PVR-250), I thought I'd try transcoding  
>> them, since that saves space. At least that was my impression. After  
>> transcoding, Alias went from about 3.5GB to 20+GB, the same for a few  
>> other recordings. Now I would like very much to "undo" this (using  
>> nuvexport?), but more importantly, where did I go wrong?
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>> Regards,
>>   JJ
>>
>> ps. Sorry for this barrage of questions. Just some things that have  
>> been on my mind for a while.
>>
> 
> Well I don't know for MPEG2->MPEG4 but for RTJPEG->MPEG4 I got the same  
> things (well with even bigger files so that it filled my HD!), and I  
> figured out that by transcoding directly WITHOUT cutlist worked  
> correctly (much smaller files after transcoding). It seems that when  
> there is a cutlist things are going wild. I'll try to see if I can  
> bring this to the dev.
> Bye
> Manu
> 
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I do Mpeg4 - Mpeg4 and it works well.  I have the conversion settings 
the same as the capture settings and removing commercials frees up about 
100MB on a 500MB file.


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