Ooops - major stuff up here, folks :(( Many, many apologies. It turns out that I'm not transcoding to MPEG2 at all. I must have set it back to MPEG4, although I really don't remember doing that. Anyway, that's why it appears to be working. I'm really sorry about that.
Someone tried a couple of years ago to get mpeg2 transcoding to work, and could never get it to work properly. That's why Gavin (Beirdo) wrote the mpeg2cut module for me to include in nuvexport. So far, avidemux is the *only* program capable of true lossless mpeg2 cutting (without resorting to cutting at a GOP, which is not good enough). Then, in his tests, he discovered that lvemux was the only program capable of stitching the audio and video back together without sync problems.
Unfortunately, afaik, lve does NOT work with fedora core 3 or later (along with some other modern distros -- I forget the exact library conflict), preventing mpeg2cut from doing its job.
Now, he's been working on extracting the relevant portions from each of those programs into a single app (esp. so that it wouldn't require X or anything like that), but it will likely take him awhile to finish.
For now, if all you want to do is save space, just transcode to mpeg4 with mythtv (keep in mind, it's optimized for encoding speed, not quality), or if you have the time, run nuvexport's xvid exporter (I prefer transcode, but it defaults to ffmpeg). Nuvexport's default xvid settings should give you about 350M/hour (minus commercials) at 624x464 (weird res, but that's how the calculations best come out after you crop 2% of the edges to get rid of broadcast noise).
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