[mythtv-users] Best settings for transcoding HD content to save space?

Ian Evans dheianevans at gmail.com
Tue May 13 18:45:16 UTC 2014


On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 7:50 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com>wrote:

> On 5/12/2014 6:52 PM, Ben Kamen wrote:
>
>> I've been looking at my drive space wondering if I can trim down
>> per/show usage by good transcoding settings.
>>
>> So I thought I'd solicit the group to see how they have their
>> transcoders set..
>>
>> I do have a 42" LCD -- so I'd like to be able to watch the HD stuff back
>> on that without cringing.
>>
>> (So just the high quality settings and what program is your myth set to
>> use?)
>>
>
> You're best off just performing lossless cutting and being done with it.
>  Disk space is cheap.  Transcoding takes time.  If you absolutely must
> transcode, you do not want to use the internal transcoder.
>

I'd like to interrupt this regularly scheduled discussion of transcoding vs
not, cutting vs not and just give the devs a huge shout-out for giving us a
software that gives us these choices. If me & the missus want to keep one
two minute segment of a Dr. Oz show, snip, boom, we're done. Compare that
to my old PVR where you had to keep the whole show.

I could never go back to that. So thanks to the MythTV community!
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