[mythtv-users] Transcoding Advice

[Jean-Yves Avenard]

On 4 January 2011 01:20, Doug Haber <doug at fawnanddoug.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I record some cartoons for my son that he watches on a laptop over a
> wireless connection.  The recordings (from an HDPVR) are 1920x1080
> with 5.1 channel sound and clock in ~2GB per half hour.  This doesn't
> fly over our wireless network and I'd like to trim them down.  I've
> tried mythtranscode,  which gets them to a workable 300MB, however,
> they lose all audio.  In addition, I've read on this list suggestions
> to not use mythtranscode and to use something else.  I'm thinking
> mythffmpeg since it works on the command line and I can eventually set
> it up as a user job.

we've discussed the 5.1 audio issue with transcode just a few days ago
here ; mythtranscode doesn't handle well 5.1 audio at this stage