[mythtv-users] Transcoding my recordings down to AVI (DIVX?) format?

Christopher Meredith chmeredith at gmail.com
Fri Oct 23 12:31:23 UTC 2009


On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 11:22 PM, Bobby Gill <brownitus at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > you the best quality for a given file size and MKV is a good reliable
>> > container. I don't think nuvexport can do H264 so you may want to
>> > focus on mythnuv2mkv. I haven't set that up as a user job personally,
>> > but I have seen it recommended several times on the list. Good luck.
>> > _______________________________________________
>>
>> I have a script that can be run as a user job. It also queries TVDB
>> for the season and episode numbers and includes them in the output
>> filename. It's tailored to HD-PVR recordings but could easily be
>> modified to convert MPEG2 (or whatever) to h264/ac3 mkv. The script is
>> here:
>>
>> http://monopedilos.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=hdpvrcutter.pl
>
> Thanks Johnny + Christopher, I will give  that script a go if I can't get
> mythnuv2mkv working...

If you decide to use my script, please let me know as I'd be
interested to see how you fare with it.


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