[mythtv-users] Transcoding Advice
Jean-Yves Avenard
jyavenard at gmail.com
Mon Jan 3 22:14:07 UTC 2011
On 4 January 2011 01:20, Doug Haber <doug at fawnanddoug.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I record some cartoons for my son that he watches on a laptop over a
> wireless connection. The recordings (from an HDPVR) are 1920x1080
> with 5.1 channel sound and clock in ~2GB per half hour. This doesn't
> fly over our wireless network and I'd like to trim them down. I've
> tried mythtranscode, which gets them to a workable 300MB, however,
> they lose all audio. In addition, I've read on this list suggestions
> to not use mythtranscode and to use something else. I'm thinking
> mythffmpeg since it works on the command line and I can eventually set
> it up as a user job.
we've discussed the 5.1 audio issue with transcode just a few days ago
here ; mythtranscode doesn't handle well 5.1 audio at this stage
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