[mythtv-users] HDTV to DVD w/o decode and encode

[Greg Grotsky]

Rob, how are you transcoding your files down?  I've been trying to
figure out how to do this with my system using nuvexport.  Whenever I
try to transcode an HD broadcast to DVD using nuvexport it goes at
like <1fps!  There are some 9million frames, I calculated it would
take several months to make a DVD.  Unacceptable. :)  I have similar
hardware, 90nm 3000+ frontend/backend.  I also tried making a test DVD
from a "Wheel of Fortune" episode using the HowTo on mythtv.info:
http://mythtv.info/moin.cgi/ArchiveRecordingsToDvdHowTo
When the DVD was done I could play it in my computer but not on my DVD player.

I'm lost.  Someone please help.
-Greg

On 5/14/05, Robert Tsai <rtsai1111 at comcast.net> wrote:
> On my AMD64 3500+ 90nm (2.2GHz) CPU (combined frontend/backend
> system), mythtranscode transcodes my HD recordings to MPEG-4 (a
> variety of resolutions from 720x480 up to 960x540) at approximately
> real-time (e.g., 1 hour to transcode a 1-hour recording), in the
> background, while other stuff is competing for CPU/disk resources
> (watching other HD recordings, recording other HD broadcasts).
> 
> I've never transcoded to RTjpeg/MPEG-2, so I don't know if it is
> "harder" or "easier" to transcode to than to MPEG-4.
> 
> This is just a data point for what Linux/mythtranscode can do with a
> CPU similar to yours.
> 
> --Rob