[mythtv-users] Mythtranscode TRASHES file to 123KB when re-encoding with cut list

John Pilkington J.Pilk at tesco.net
Tue May 24 10:45:44 UTC 2011


On 24/05/11 04:22, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
> John Pilkington wrote at about 23:26:38 +0100 on Monday, May 23, 2011:
>   >  Going from mpeg2 to h264 before cutting does seem a long way round. You
>   >  might do better to cut and clean with project-x and then re-encode.
>   >
>
> Well, I do an initial mpeg2 to mpeg4 after recording to save disk
> space, then when I get around to watching it, I do a further cut to
> trim out unwanted portions which I often don't know in advance until I
> watch the show

OK.  I see that I've misremembered your initially posted mpeg4 as h264. 
ISTR that cutting that would probably go through mpeg2 and that's what 
seemed clumsy - and sparked the mytharchive reference.







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