[mythtv-users] Transcode makes files bigger
Jay R. Ashworth
jra at baylink.com
Sat Mar 26 17:37:45 UTC 2005
On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 10:44:10AM -0500, Bill Smith wrote:
> Any idea why enabling transcode from rtjpeg to mpeg 4 would result in
> files 10x bigger than the original rtjpeg files? I recorded The Screen
> Savers and the 1 hour show is 25 GB after transcoding. I had this
> problem and disabled transcoding... but now I'm trying to figure out the
> issue as I'm only getting 40 hours on my 120 GB drive.
If I correctly understand the current state of this problem,
mythtranscode, as late as 0.17, but fixed somewhere in CVS (maybe) has
a problem where it switches to outputting RAW mode frames, due to
system load during the transcode. Captain Murdoch (from IRC) was
chasing this around, and I believe he said he found it, though I don't
know whether the patch was committed yet or not.
As you can guess, we've had that problem here, as well.
I'm *fairly* sure that this will be fixed, for those few people who
seem to get bitten by it, in the upcoming 0.18, but I'll double check.
Cheers,
-- jra
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