[mythtv-users] Transcoding profiles

Bob mythtv at cox.net
Fri May 20 03:09:33 UTC 2011


On 05/19/2011 07:47 AM, Raymond Wagner wrote:
> Your content is already in h264.  It already is in the most efficient
> common codec available.  While hardware decoders are not going to be as
> efficient as something like x264, and you could arguably shave off
> 20-30% with minimal quality loss, it will be at a huge cost in CPU power
> (and electricity).  You shouldn't bother transcoding that content unless
> you are either clipping commercials, or need it in a specific format for
> some device.  In either case, you really want to use an external
> utility, rather than MythTV's internal transcoder.
>    
I had a hard drive crash and I restored some shows from an external 
drive where I had archive them.  When I archived the shows (using mythtv 
0.23) I had cut lists to help skip commercials, etc.  When I restored 
the shows (mythtv 0.24) my cut lists were lost.

My goal was to work around this, transcoding was the first idea.  Is 
there a way to make the cut lists "stick" between an archive and an 
export?  Perhaps my database has issues?



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