[mythtv-users] Suggested bitrate for transcoding HD Mpeg 2 to Mpeg 4

[Ian Evans]

> Here is the script I wrote and use. It is mostly up to date and is currently
> working in 0.24 from git
>
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/High_Quality_Transcode

Finally got around to reinstalling ffmpeg with h264 and tried your script out.

Just one initial observation as I do some tests...instead of a
thumbnail of a frame from the show, the thumbnail is just grey. Is
that something I can change?

Just going to test it on another file...