[mythtv-users] Looking for trancoding suggestions

Steve Smith st3v3.sm1th at gmail.com
Wed May 30 09:35:07 UTC 2007


I've looked at doing similar whilst staying in MPEG2 for MVP support. If you
are prepared to drop resolution you can save quite a bit of space.
Try using ffmpeg's "SVCD" setting....

(I've noticed that if I set the resolution to SVCD size manually i.e. with
-s 352x258 (I can't remember the exact size) the video won't play with mvpmc
properly, using the SVCD setting works.... strange)

But really if you want to maintain quality MPEG4 is your only option. How
big is the screen on this portable device? It may be profitable to set the
resolution to the exact number of pixels on the portable e.g. my Palm has a
320x320 screen so if I set the resolution to that, that's the maximum I'll
need.

Cheers

Steve

On 30/05/07, Dewey Smolka <dsmolka at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 5/28/07, James Pifer <jep at obrien-pifer.com> wrote:
> >
> > > The best solution I can think of is to just put a bigger hard drive in
> > > the enclosure. 500GB drives are under $150 these days, and how much
> > > video do you really need to store? That's close to 250 hours at full
> DVD
> > > rate for SD.
> > >
> > > It's the old "time vs. money" equation I suppose.
> > >
> >
> > I generally agree with this logic, but running a script to do the
> > transcoding and letting it run isn't really a time issue. Either way,
> > I'm still interested in what settings/options others have used with
> > success to create good quality videos while gaining significant disk
> > space.
> >
>
> Unfortunately, saving space while preserving quality pretty much means
> moving to an MPEG-4 or similar format. This won't work so well with
> the MediaMVP, but there's no requirement to get rid of your original
> MPEG-2s after they've been transcoded.
>
> Brian's right. Storage is dirt cheap and getting cheaper. Either get a
> huge drive for your travel player, or get a largish drive for the
> travel player and transcode to Xvid for it while keeping the originals
> for the MediaMVP.
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