[mythtv-users] OT: Anybody create CVDs on Linux?

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Tuesday 25 November 2003 12:52, Chris Petersen wrote:
> > Fabulous!  If I get a decent command working, I'll send it to you. 
> > I also have a change in my copy that eliminates the use of mp2enc
> > for SVCD audio transcoding and just uses ffmpeg to do the sound
> > transcoding.  Now the question is, toolame was preferred over
> > mp2enc, but now which would be the preferred encoder -- toolame or
> > ffmpeg?
>
> honestly, no clue there...  does ffmpeg use the LAME engine for
> encoding?

Dunno.



> > Oh, I also changed the toolame command to insert a call to sox for
> > resampling.  Probably want to make the output sample rate a
> > user-input parameter and put some logic in there -- no need to
> > resample if in/out rates are the same.  ffmpeg can resample on its
> > own, which is why I tried using it in the first place.
>
> Well, svcd audio MUST be 44.1 on output.  But the sox will definitely
> help those who don't have that for input (I tried looking into that,
> but at some point people stopped expressing interest).

Yeah, anybody using btaudio (like me) is likely stuck with 32kHz, so I 
have to upsample to 44.1kHz.  When doing SVCD, you can probably just 
check the input sample rate (from nuvinfo?) and if it's not 44.1kHz, 
build the command with resampling, otherwise don't resample.

-JAC