[mythtv-users] Transcoding my recordings down to AVI (DIVX?) format?

[Christopher Meredith]

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Johnny <jarpublic at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I didn't think of going with h264 because my recordings are all analog/2ch,
>> I suppose I just mentally defaulted to AVI for them. I actually do watch a
>> lot of HD stuff in MKV and it's kinda my "go-to" format as it is, so yeah, I
>> will check nuvexport and mythnuv2mkv. If they can be set up as a user job,
>> well hoo haa this should be pretty simple...
>
> In that case I would focus on going with H264 and MKV. That will give
> you the best quality for a given file size and MKV is a good reliable
> container. I don't think nuvexport can do H264 so you may want to
> focus on mythnuv2mkv. I haven't set that up as a user job personally,
> but I have seen it recommended several times on the list. Good luck.
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I have a script that can be run as a user job. It also queries TVDB
for the season and episode numbers and includes them in the output
filename. It's tailored to HD-PVR recordings but could easily be
modified to convert MPEG2 (or whatever) to h264/ac3 mkv. The script is
here:

http://monopedilos.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=hdpvrcutter.pl