[mythtv-users] Suggested bitrate for transcoding HD Mpeg 2 to Mpeg 4

[belcampo]

On 06/01/11 11:38, Ian Evans wrote:
> On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 3:35 AM, belcampo<belcampo at zonnet.nl>  wrote:
>> Test it for yourself, messure and draw your own conclusions.
>> Multi-pass is a waste of time unless you absolutely need the max quality
>> at a given size, size of a cd or dvd, otherwise if you don't need the
>> past % in size, forget about multi-pass. Try yourself, see and measure
>> and decide yourself.
>> As you see, there is no bitrate given for the video part, the bitrate is
>> a result of your quality settings.
>
> Thanks, I'll give it a try.
>
> If this is done as a user job, is there a way to keep the filename the
> same so the show's still available in Watch Recordings?
Yes, if you 1st encode to tmp.mpg and then mv -f tmp.mpg original.mpg
But you do have to use mythtranscode to rebuild the seektable.
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