[mythtv-users] recordedseek table content

Anthony Giggins seven at seven.dorksville.net
Mon Dec 13 11:30:03 UTC 2010


On 13 December 2010 08:45, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:

> On 12/12/2010 17:00, D. R. Newman wrote:
>
>> On 12/12/10 21:08, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>>
>>  The only reason to ever do a multi-pass encode is if you're trying to
>>> fit an exact file size.  Otherwise, just set a quantizer for an
>>> acceptable quality, and let the codec do its thing.
>>>
>> Don't two pass encodings use a higher bit rate where there is a lot of
>> movement, and lower bit rates when there are just a few people talking?
>> I set Avidemux to 2-pass encode to an average bit rate of 700 bps (for
>> PAL originals), assuming that it would still manage the fast scenes
>> while not taking up too much space.
>>
>
> Using a quantizer allows the compressor to use more or less bitrate as
> needed to achieve the quality level set by the quantizer.  All a first pass
> does is figures out how to distribute that to accurately hit a desired
> bitrate.  If you don't care how big a video is going to end up, there is no
> need for it.
>
>
>  See http://mythtv.org/wiki/Mythvidexport.py
>>> It already does most of those operations as a user job, plus allows user
>>> defined formatting of the resultant filename, and metadata pulling from
>>> the defined data grabbers in MythVideo.
>>>
>> Thanks for the reference. I knew about mytharchive, and the different
>> job it does, but had not come across mythvidexport.py . I take it that
>> it doesn't transcode the file, just moves it? (I have to ask, because
>> Python isn't one of the languages I have used.)
>>
>
> Correct.  It copies the recording as it exists over to MythVideo.  It does
> not do any transcoding.
>
>
>
Silly question but what is the point of that?
other then grouping everything in mythvideo?
I thought the whole point of mythvideo was to play back anything that wasn't
a recording or a place to export recordings after transcoding to reduce
storage requirements?

please enlighten me

Cheers,

Anthony
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