[mythtv-users] Transcoding Artifacts

[Michael T. Dean]

On 08/24/2007 06:16 AM, Dan Harper wrote:
> I'm a bit of a Myth-newbie, but I'm running svn revision 14267 and  
> having some mpeg compression style artifacts after transcoding to  
> MPEG4 (blips on the audio and random sections of the video  
> corrupting, like when your digital signal is not so good on Live TV).
>
> When watching live tv or watching a recording without transcoding, it  
> looks fine.
>
> Any ideas on how to debug/fix this?

Use a higher bitrate or better bitrate distribution for VBR (i.e. make
sure you always use a 2-pass encoding)

Mike