On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Dan Bartels wrote:
OK... that's what I thought. Most people don't want to spend the time and potential quality loss of reencoding the video. My experience has been the same, however; that reencoding is the best option for making a DVD-friendly stream. I generally use avidemux since, like I said before, I have trouble reading transcode's "option-ese"Yes, you understand the script correctly. It does recode everything into a DVD-Friendly file. (And if you give it the option, it'll dvdauthor it for you. I found that this was the best way for everything to work out best/most compatible, etc.
Avidemux2 does cutting, and I believe that it might be capable of making the stream more dvd-friendly too.
FWIW, I've found that for archival purposes, I record at a moderate bitrate MPEG2 (2 gig/hour) at 640x480. Avidemux to find commercials, and then do a 2-pass, denoise, resize to 352x480 MPEG2 transcoding. It makes great VHS/broadcast archives at 5-6 hour-long (42 minute) shows per DVD.
-Cory
************************************************************************* * Cory Papenfuss * * Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student * * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University * *************************************************************************
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