[mythtv-users] transcode makes files bigger ?

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Mon Feb 6 23:28:46 UTC 2006


Chris wrote:

>1 1022 transcode 5 0 2006-02-06 12:18:56 mickey Transcode Finished Blown
>away: 3.5 GB (Autodetect) 
>
>2 1021 transcode 5 0 2006-02-06 09:45:00 mickey Transcode Starting Blown
>away: 2.9 GB (Autodetect)
>
>I thought the idea was to make files smaller ?
>
>I'm using Revision: 8711
>  
>
No.  The idea is to transcode the video.  Transcoding is done according 
to your settings.  Fix your settings.  My guess, you set it to scale 
bitrate according to resolution...

Mike


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