[mythtv-users] Downscale HD recordings with ffmpeg

Philippe Van Der Gucht philippe at vandergucht.org
Sun Mar 15 15:18:53 UTC 2009


Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> Hi
> 
> 2009/3/16 Philippe Van Der Gucht <philippe at vandergucht.org 
> <mailto:philippe at vandergucht.org>>
> 
>     What about the options? Are they any good?
> 
> 
> What about using mencoder ?
> 
> it supports x264 no ?

Using mencoder was my first reflex as I normally used it for all my 
video conversion needs. But with a hd h.264 recording it is seemingly 
completely unresponsive on my system. It just opens an out file and uses 
100% cpu time. I have to issue a kill -9 to end it.



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