[mythtv-users] nuvexport ffmpeg video quality

[Patrick Oglesby]

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 6:16 AM, Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11 May 2011 17:20, Joel Ebel <mythtv at ebel.mybox.org> wrote:
>> I'm happy to see the 6-channel audio problem resolved with mythexport.
>> now nuvexport is usable.  However, I'm still running into video quality
>> issues and looking for advice.
>>
>> In my previous mythtv install, I used nuvexport with transcode and Xvid.
>>  I used single pass with a quantizer value of 4.  I don't particularly
>> care about exact bitrates or file sizes.  I just want consistent decent
>> quality and a fast encode.  Using single pass seemed appropriate and
>> worked well before.
>>
>> Now, with the 24-fixes branch, transcode support is removed, so it's
>> either ffmpeg or mencoder.  With ffmpeg, I get larger files and much
>
> What do you mean that transcode support is removed?
>
> mythtranscode is still there ...
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I believe he meant the nuvexport option to use transcode
(http://www.transcoding.org/) instead of ffmpeg to do the video
transcoding.  Just like how there is/was the option to use mencoder
also.

- Patrick