[mythtv-users] Encoding to h264 to save space

[Richard Freeman]

Glenn Harris wrote:
> 
> Hmm, I was under the impression that the currently available
> 'uncompressed' option would leave all the channels present in the
> audio.  I did the simple 'ear' test by playing an hd show after I
> transcoded to MPEG4 and had what sounded like surround channels coming
> through my rear speakers.  

Chances are it was just standard dolby prologic surround - that only
requires a stereo channel.  I think the uncompressed option transcodes
to a stereo wav track.  So you still lose the 5.1 AC3 data.