Stephen Boddy wrote:
On Saturday 22 October 2005 16:47, Michael T. Dean wrote:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/141559#141559
Note the part that says:
For now, if all you want to do is save space, just transcode to mpeg4
with mythtv (keep in mind, it's optimized for encoding speed, not
quality) ...
Damn, that doesn't sound good.
Looks like I need to stick with the original files, and either watch more TV,
or start building one mother of a storage server!
You could always do manual transcoding. If you specify an appropriate
multi-pass transcode with variable bitrate using a bitrate chosen
appropriately for the output resolution and CODEC, you can get good
quality (how to manually transcode is left as an exercise to the reader
;). However, if your container is anything other than Myth's NUV
container or MPEG-2, you're probably better off putting the recording
into MythVideo instead of trying to keep it in recordings.
Mike
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