[mythtv-users] Mythtranscode and H264?

[Michael T. Dean]

On 05/01/2013 01:18 AM, Alexander Puchmayr wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 30. April 2013, 14:43:02 schrieb Raymond Wagner:
>>> From: Alexander Puchmayr
>>> Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 2:17 PM
>>>
>>> Mythtranscode (I'm using 0.25) seems to have trouble with H264, when
>>> trying to convert a mpeg-ts with h264 (as received from my cable tv
>>> provider), it failes with
>>>
>>> transcode.cpp:1326 (TranscodeFile) - Unknown video codec: H.264
>>>
>>> Is there a way to transcode material with h264?
>>> Is it supported in 0.26?
>> It _should_ work, but there is really no reason to want to do this.
>> Anything MythTranscode has the ability to transcode into will be larger and
>> lower quality than what you already have.
>>
> Removing commercials is reason enough for me to want that ...

But since there's no lossless cutting capability for H.264 and since 
mythtranscode only transcodes to garbage formats, using mythtranscode on 
H.264 is a bad thing.  You'll want to find some other tool that's 
designed to work with H.264.

IMHO, the /only/ use for mythtranscode is lossless cutting of MPEG-2.  
If you're doing anything else, it's not the tool for you.

Mike