[mythtv-users] Safe way to downgrade from 0.25 back to 0.24?

[Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa]

On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 1:18 AM, Karl Dietz
<dekarl at spaetfruehstuecken.org> wrote:
> On 04.05.2012 04:29, Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa wrote:
>>
>> Nope, h264 is just better (well, ok, a lot better, and also A LOT
>> slower at encoding), but mpeg4 is clearly superior to mpeg2 (thus: I
>> use it to record from frame grabbers).  Trust me, I did A LOT of tests
>> with video codecs a few years ago, including: mpeg2, mpeg4, mjpeg,
>> Theora, DivX, xvid, x264 (same as h264?, well, I used x264) (as far as
>> I can remember).  All in all, x264 is really good (best for now?),
>> mpeg4 is good specially with 2-pass (and relatively fast), and mpeg2,
>> well, it is good and proven, but I when given the choice, I would
>> certainly use mpeg4 over mpeg2 any day.
>
>
> just a small note, when talking about MPEG4 in broadcast context it is
> always H.264 (aka MPEG-4 Part 10), not to be confused with DixX & Co.
> which are MPEG-4 Part 2.
>
> And to add something to the discussion, you can add a user job to transcode
> the recordings with mythffmpeg, see
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Category:User_Job_Scripts
> e.g.
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/High_Quality_Transcode combined with others
> to add obeying the cut list (I overrecord up to 55 minutes per episode
> due to some stations running late up to ~40 minutes at night and at
> 45 minutes recording to keep and 55 minutes to drop that saves a lot
> of space, even with lossless transcode)
> Then you can quickly set cut marks and fire off the cut and trancode job
> with a few clicks.
>
>
> Btw, I'm suggesting that script as it targets H.264/AAC in MP4 files
> which appear to be compatible with lots of players, so you only have
> to transcode once and can watch it on lots of devices.
> E.g if you want to play around with a cheap Raspberry Pi later, that
> thing only has H.264 hardware support.

This is good :) , I'll certainly implement this on my system.... after
I get some free time.  I also want to have my 950Q working again :( ,
but that'll require more time.... who knows, maybe next week.