[mythtv-users] Recording MPEG-4 to DVD

[Jesse Guardiani]

Brian Wood wrote:
> On Jan 29, 2006, at 4:43 PM, Piers Kittel wrote:
>
>   
>> Thanks very much for your quick reply!
>>
>> So I encode the video into MPEG-2 following the standard resolution  
>> for
>> PAL DVD, then use a DVD creator tool to make a DVD ISO and then  
>> burn it
>> on DVD?  Will standard MPEG-2 be OK or is there some specific  
>> version of
>> MPEG-2 I need to encode the video into?
>>
>>     
> The video needs to be 720x480 or 704x480 (assuming NTSC) and meet  
> some other standards.
>
> dvdstyler is a good option, as was pointed out, the other Linux  
> option is dvdauthor and its graphical frontend qdvdauthor.
>
> Personally I use my Mac to create DVDs, so I can't tell you much  
> about the authoring apps.
>   


I've been wondering this for a while: Will the new version of MythBurn 
be capable of this sort of thing?

Seems like a nice feature. I don't really want to switch to mpeg-4 
unless MythBurn supports it,
but 170M/half hour with Mpeg-4 is a really nice CPU savings over 
1GB/half hour with Mpeg-2.

17% of the size. :) But maybe that's just the compression for anime like 
Naruto and FMA. Maybe
normal TV shows don't compress quite so well? I also wonder how badly 
the quality would degrade,
going from my PVR 350's Mpeg-2 -> Mpeg-4 for disk storage, then back to 
Mpeg-2 for DVD
burning. I suppose I could always buy a hardware Mpeg-4 encoder though. 
Anyway, seems like
a desirable feature. Is it in the works?


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Jesse Guardiani
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jesse at wingnet.net