On 8/29/05, Martin Bene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > By the way, many of my recordings are transcoded to mpeg4... > > Should I assume this script won't transcode them properly? > > Unfortunately: yes, you should assume that. The script not only won't > transcode them properly, it won't transcode them at all :-) > > The scripts assume that the original files are mpeg2 in a DVD comaptible > resolution (720x576 for pal and 720x480 for ntsc; 704x576 and 704x480 > are also mentioned in the standard and should work, as should a few > low-res settings). > > Transcoding differet formats is on the radar for the scripts, but not > right away. > > Next thing I'll add is recoding mpeg2 audio to ac3 for ntsc DVDs - on > pal, mpeg2 is a required format for all players so no problems there. On > NTSC ac3 is required and mpeg2 optional; just another way to introduce > artifical regional incompatibilities in the DVD standard. Works nicely > on my system, just need to bundle it up as a tarball. > > After that, I'd like to have bitrate reduction using tcrequant - some of > the DVB stations I receive broadcast at bitrates of ~ 7500kb/s which > comes to ~ 4GB per hour. Meaning: a feature length film won't fit on a > DVD as-is. > > Once that works I might add transcoding of different formats - no > promises though: my system is DVB only, and I don't currently transcode > anything, so motivation is fairly low. > > Bye, Martin
I've been following this thread for a few days, and hoped to try out the scripts sometime this week. However, after seeing this post it appears as though I need some clarification. If I understand correctly, if I have already transcoded programs from MPEG2 (recorded from PVR250s and/or PVR500) to MPEG4, then I cannot use these scripts to burn to DVD. Is this correct? I guess what I need to do is start recording programs with a different profile, so that they will not be automagically transcoded, if I want to burn them to DVD. Please confirm... Thanks. --g _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users