[mythtv-users] MonoChrome (B+W) Recordings

[Brian Wood]

It occurs to me that I record a lot of Black-and-White programs, and  
that they are recorded as color video, thus wasting a lot of space.

I figure that to actually record the programs as B+W would require  
changes to the drivers, if not the firmware, of the PVR cards, and is  
probably not practical.

But transcoding them after the fact to eliminate unneeded chroma  
information might be possible.

Does anyone know of a way to transcode an mpeg-2 file to a pure B+W  
one? Seems like a lot of space could be saved.

Brian Wood
beww at beww.org