Hmm, this is starting to look bad. I found the transcode package, see now how it is different than mythtranscode, but it's still looking very difficult. All I really want to do is make the file size smaller, but it's looking like I might have to rip all the DVDs again, is that true?
thanks for any info,
-b
Brian Topping wrote:
Hi all,
I just got done ripping some DVDs without compression, thinking that I could transcode them afterwards, in bulk, while I was sleeping or something. I originally thought I could queue them up, but after looking at the jobqueue table, it appears that it's only usable for broadcast video.
So at this point, I'm thinking I'll need to call the "base transcode command" that is listed in the DVD Ripper Settings, but I can't find that command anywhere. Any ideas on how to do this?
Thanks!
Brian
No new rips needed, you can fire off transcode from the command line. When you rip a DVD, check the mythfrontend console output, it will tell you the exact command it uses. My older install (0.16) used this command for a "good" quality Xvid, I made a little shell scipts out of it:
------------- #!/bin/sh
echo converting $1.vob ...
nice transcode -i "/var/lib/mythvideo/$1.vob" -g 720x480 -f 0,1 -M 2 -V -j 0,8,0,8 -y xvid -w 1618 -o "/var/lib/mythvideo/$1.avi" --print_status 20 --color 0 &> tc.log &
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HTH-
Tim
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