[mythtv-users] Transcoding SD MPEG2 to H.264---recommendations?

[Nick Rout]

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 1:37 PM, D. R. Newman
<d.r.newman at e-consultation.org> wrote:
> On 29/11/10 18:54, f-myth-users at media.mit.edu wrote:
>> I considered that, but c'mon.  It was just a normal PVR-250 recording
>> from an STB.  It plays just fine.  It seems unlikely that every other
>> frame (on average) has an error in it.
>
> It is unlikely to get that many errors. In my experience, ProjectX
> normally picks up half a dozen errors in a 30-min DTV programme recorded
> from a digital terrestrial (Freeview). Some of those errors were in the
> transmitted programme, some come from the reception.
>
> Most digital video players are written to tolerate lots of errors, but
> still keep on playing. Encoders are not. Indeed, I started passing
> everything through ProjectX when a particular version of Avidemux
> stopped on the first error it found.
>
> Dave Newman

+1 for ProjectX. I often had problems with audio sync when transcoding
files with avidemux, but running through ProjectX first then avidemux
makes a good file very time.