[mythtv-users] Re: Does transcoding remove commercials?

[Kyle Kelly]

Matt Vollmar wrote:

> One thing that is different in my setup is that I have a software 
> encoder (MPEG4), whereas it sounds like you have a PVR-x50.  In the 
> transcoder settings, make sure you choose to transcode to MPEG-2.  If 
> it is set to something different (like RTJpeg), it will re-encode 
> everything and from what I've heard, RTJpeg is bigger than at least 
> MPEG4.  Plus it will take much longer because it is re-encoding, 
> rather than just trimming.  I may not totally understand what is going 
> on under the covers, but I know it has worked well for me once I set 
> everything properly.
>
> Matt
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Sorry to break it to you, but with a pvr-x50 you cannot transcode back 
to mpeg2, just to mpeg4 or RTjpeg.  There is possibly a way however to 
do it with nuvexport, but its a bit convoluted  and I've yet to manage 
to get it to work.