[mythtv-users] down sizing

[Daryl McDonald]

On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 6:26 PM, Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 10:35 PM, Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 9:05 PM, A. F. Cano <afc at shibaya.lonestar.org>
>> wrote:
>> > On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 12:13:36PM -0500, Daryl McDonald wrote:
>> >> Is there any way to get a movie recorded in HD (14GB with ads in) to
>> >> burn onto a DVD (4.7GB)? I've done low quality transcodes on 6.8GB
>> >> recordings that end up at 5GB.  027 fixes in Ubuntu 120.4
>> >
>> > I asked how to transcode to SD a while back for a different reason:
>> > slow CPU, and was given this command that has been working great:
>> >
>> > mythffmpeg -i <HDfilename>.mpg -target ntsc-dvd <HDfilename>SD.mpg
>> >
>> > It's been working great, although very slowly on my old/slow CPU.
>> > At least I can watch the SD versions that come out.
>> >
>> > Others have commented extensively on size and quality issues, which
>> > are all relevant to fitting the files on the DVDs, so more option
>> > tweaking might be necessary if the files are really long.
>> >
>> > Augustine
>> >
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>> I recorded in HD because that was the way it was broadcast. As
>> advised, however it did work, after transcoding the file size went to
>> 10 GB and when I burned the DVD it showed 3GB to be occupied, it's
>> automagic!
>> Much joy.
>>
>
> I'm reviving this thread because I haven't really had "much joy" what has
> happened is when I select SP which give a size appropriate to the space on
> the disc I get a recording that is 30 minutes long instead of the original
> 90 minutes. To the best of my knowledge I'm following the wiki, some
> category names have changed since .21, using the cutlist brings it from 14
> Gb to about 8 Gb then selecting SP reduces it to 2.7 GB but the result is
> only the first third of the recording.
>
> I'm using mythtv.27 fixes in a 14.04 Ubuntu desktop.  any ideas?     Daryl
>

I got a little further with a different recording, 1:13 of 1:30 but it
terminated, see log at:

http://paste.ubuntu.com/9467715/

I haven't, as yet tried transcoding first, because it seems that the
mytharchive process transcodes again anyway, which if I read correctly
compounds quality reduction. Can the encoding profile be changed while
transcoding first? And would that make burning the DVD simpler?
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