[mythtv-users] Re:Automated Transcoding Suggestions

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Friday 13 February 2004 11:34, Andy wrote:
> Any chance that one of the new auto-transcode options could be
> lossless MPEG-4->DivX or XviD? Many people are looking for a way to
> get to a standard MPEG-4 format without having to re-encode. (As I
> expect there is no chance that the choice of native formats will ever
> be updated to include standardized ones, other than the MPEG-2
> created by the hardware encoders...)

If what you mean by "lossless" is copying the encoded audio & video to a 
different container format without decoding/reencoding, then I think 
the problem has been that no one seems to have had much success at 
maintaining A/V sync in the output file doing it that way.

-JAC