[mythtv-users] Transcoding profiles

[Christopher Meredith]

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
> On 5/19/2011 12:56, Christopher Meredith wrote:
>> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Raymond Wagner<raymond at wagnerrp.com>  wrote:
>>> On 5/19/2011 12:01, Christopher Meredith wrote:
>>>> Also, I choose 3250 kbps because that's the current convention for archived, HD, commercial-less recordings (1-hour show = 1.1 GB).
>>> By who?  People who have been known in years past to use stupid encoding
>>> options that play hell with hardware decoders?  People who fervently
>>> insist that in this day and age, content still exist in a filesize such
>>> that it perfectly fits on some optical medium? If you're going to follow
>>> standard practices dictated by 'the scene', don't forget to pack up all
>>> your content in RARs, split at 15MB chunks.
>> Why do you care what settings I use?
>
> http://xkcd.com/386/
>
> The point I'm trying to make is that running two pass encoding for that
> specific bitrate is a terrible sub-optimization made for reasons that
> very likely have no relevance to your use case.  Multi-pass encoding
> only exists to allow you to set the quantizer to hit a specific target
> file size.  Accurate target file sizes only have worth if you're trying
> to store on a medium with limited space.  If you're actually archiving
> this stuff to DVD afterwards, then the cost to do so, time spent burning
> and recovering from optical media, and expected lifetime, is a whole
> other discussion.

I do not use multi-pass encoding. I never said I did.