[mythtv-users] Downscale HD recordings with ffmpeg

Owen Townend owen.townend at gmail.com
Sun Mar 15 22:53:07 UTC 2009


2009/3/16 Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com>:
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 4:18 AM, Philippe Van Der Gucht
> <philippe at vandergucht.org> wrote:
>> Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> 2009/3/16 Philippe Van Der Gucht <philippe at vandergucht.org
>>> <mailto:philippe at vandergucht.org>>
>>>
>>>    What about the options? Are they any good?
>>>
>>>
>>> What about using mencoder ?
>>>
>>> it supports x264 no ?
>>
>> Using mencoder was my first reflex as I normally used it for all my video
>> conversion needs. But with a hd h.264 recording it is seemingly completely
>> unresponsive on my system. It just opens an out file and uses 100% cpu time.
>> I have to issue a kill -9 to end it.
>
> I haven't tried either of these options, but you could also try
> HandBrakeCLI or avidemux_cli.

Hey,

Might also be worth looking at 'mythnuv2mkv'[0] which is a shell/perl wrapper
for mencoder designed to be added as a user job and, despite the name, can
also output to avi or mp4 (in x264 or xvid).
Works for me.

cheers,
Owen.

footnotes:
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[0] http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Mythnuv2mkv


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