On 1/12/06, Phill Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Haven't seen anyone reply to this yet so I will. Notice he said 'lossless'. > > The MPEG2->MPEG2 transcoding in SVN is for cutting only, it does not > > re-encode the frames (except around the cutpoints I believe). So, the > > space savings from using it are because you get to cut out those 20 minutes > > of commercials out of every hour of show and if you're using TS files, > > you may save space since the output format is PS. > > Thanks Chris. What prompted me to think that lossy might be an option > in SVN was that he said "...using the -m switch (which should turn ON > lossless) creates a file the same size as without it". That implies > that if you don't use the -m switch you get a _lossy_ conversion which > is what I actually want! If there is no lossy trancoding, why is there > a -m flag to specify lossless if that's all it does anyway?
-m doesn't mean lossless, it just means "Perform MPEG2 to MPEG2 transcode". You can change the transcode settings for this profile to lossless in mythfrontend. Adam _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
