[mythtv-users] Mythtranscode and H264?

[Raymond Wagner]

On 05/01/2013 8:02AM, Paul Gardiner wrote:
> On 01/05/2013 11:58, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>> On 5/1/2013 4:55 AM, Paul Gardiner wrote:
>>> On 01/05/2013 07:36, Kenni Lund wrote:
>>>> No... As Raymond already said, anything that mythtranscode generates
>>>> will result in larger files and lower quality.
>>>
>>> Unless you use --fifodir mode and run the piped output of
>>> mythtranscode into ffmpeg. That way you can choose exactly the format
>>> you want, and if smaller files is what you are after then scaling
>>> down to 720p30 (or 720p60 for 1080i source) a good option.
>>
>> The raw, frameserver output of --fifodir will be vastly larger than
>> any input file you may have fed to mythtranscode.
> 
> Yeah, but you don't keep that. You keep only what comes out of ffmpeg.
> Not sure what you are saying.

What I'm saying is that anything mythtranscode outputs is going to be far
larger and/or lower quality than any h264 recordings input into it. Using
mythtranscode to transcode your recordings, and using mythtranscode as a
decoder wrapped by big external utility, are two very different things.