[mythtv-users] Nuvexport, mencoder, userjob and x264

Peter Watkins peterw at tux.org
Sun Jan 24 21:44:02 UTC 2010


On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 08:08:36PM +0000, Rajil Saraswat wrote:

> I have been running nuvexport as a user job to convert my SD
> recordings using xvid codec. It has been working quite well. I want to
> go a step further and transcode all the recordings using x264 to save
> on disk space and higher compression. Nuvexport with -mencoder option
> however doesnt have that option.
> 
> Has anybody done this sort of thing? I like nuvexport since the
> filename output has the date of the recording appended to it as well.

If you want to transcode with nice filenames, have you looked at my
pdatranscode.pl script? http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Pdatranscode.pl

There's a filename-format option you cna use to control filenames and
even make subdirectories if needed.

-Peter



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