[mythtv-users] Transcoding and H264

[Robert Houghton]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:27 AM, kanetse at gmail.com <kane.tse at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 8:47 AM, Robert Houghton <robbadler at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> The script seems to work well with MythTV-0.24, however, something
> >> might be wrong with the audio encoding.  It seems very muffled
> >> compared to the original.  Does anyone know what settings need to be
> >> adjusted to fix this?
> >
> > What is your input codec?
> >
>
> Unfortunately, I'm not sure how to answer this.  Here is what ffmpeg
> seems to report when it reads the input file:
>
>
> Input #0, mpegts, from '4101_20110211115900.mpg':
>  Duration: 01:06:02.95, start: 94093.518944, bitrate: 15680 kb/s
>  Program 1
>    Stream #0.0[0x21]: Video: mpeg2video, yuv420p, 1920x1080 [PAR 1:1
> DAR 16:9], 14918 kb/s, 35.59 fps, 29.97 tbr, 90k tbn, 59.94 tbc
>    Stream #0.1[0x24](eng): Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, 5.1, s16, 384 kb/s
>
>
> Also, is there a flag I can pass to ffmpeg to get it to suppress the
> encoding progress messages?  The line breaks are non-standard and
> causes my mythbackend.log file to be hard to read.  Or is there I way
> I can get it to spit out the messages less frequently (say, once every
> 10 minutes)?
>
> Thanks!
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One can append 2>/dev/null to the command which executes ffmpeg. This will
cause NO output from the ffmpeg command, neither header nor actual errors.
You can redirect instead to an ffmpeg-specific file if you prefer.

I don't mind having the (albeit huge) ammount of noise in my log file. Its
why God invented `grep`
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