[mythtv-users] transcoding video for a Sony Bravia TV

[Henk D. Schoneveld]

On 10 Feb 2016, at 22:13, Stefan G. Weichinger <lists at xunil.at> wrote:

> Am 2016-02-10 um 21:13 schrieb Henk D. Schoneveld:
> 
>>> Everything playable on an Android or iOS device will also be
>>> playable on your Sony TV AFAIK. ffmpeg -i  29724_20131112191300.nuv
>>> -c:v libx264 -preset veryfast -crf 22 -g 50 -me_method umh -c:a
>>> libfaac -ab 128k -movflags faststart result.mp4
>>> 
>>> This will give you a file in its original resolution, and which has
>>> I-frames aka keyframes every 2 seconds on 25fps material and should
>>> be seek able.
>> As a bonus your file size will considerably smaller almost certain
>> the resulting recording will be < 2GB
> 
> 
> yes, this took me some steps further!
> had to use ac3 for audio encoding and now it plays and is seekable.
> 
> I even tested larger files successfully ... the 2 GB limit seems not to
> apply anymore.
I assumed that the files were on a FAT formatted USB-stick and that the filesystem was causing the 2GB limit.
> 
> I am now testing other/slower presets and lower crf to improve quality.
> 
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