Re: [mythtv-users] Transcoding settings for DVB source

2005-01-30 Thread David Whyte
Yup, looking forward to that when 0.17 goes binary for FC2 :P Thanks for hint. I thought that would be possible when I was reading about the Jobqueus this morning on the Wiki. Good to know I was on the right track :P Cheers, Dave On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 23:59:50 -0500 (EST), Chris Pinkham <[EMAIL

Re: [mythtv-users] Transcoding settings for DVB source

2005-01-30 Thread Chris Pinkham
> I managed to get this working, thanks. I transcoded a 30 minute show > to MPEG4 which made it frop from 1.6Gig to ~700MB, which is a nice > size, and still good quality. My question is, is this some unique > MPEG4 container, or is it normal DivX/XviD? The reason I ask is even > when I download

Re: [mythtv-users] Transcoding settings for DVB source

2005-01-30 Thread David Whyte
Cheers Andy, I managed to get this working, thanks. I transcoded a 30 minute show to MPEG4 which made it frop from 1.6Gig to ~700MB, which is a nice size, and still good quality. My question is, is this some unique MPEG4 container, or is it normal DivX/XviD? The reason I ask is even when I down

Re: [mythtv-users] Transcoding settings for DVB source

2005-01-29 Thread David Whyte
Hey Andy, How exactly do you configure which format to transcode to? Is it merely a case of Myth knowing which format it is going to encode from (in my DVB-T case, it is MPEG2) and therefore, you don't actually assign a recording profile option anywhere, you just configure the MPEG2 entry in Setu

[mythtv-users] Transcoding settings for DVB source

2005-01-28 Thread Andy Whitworth
Hi, I've just edited commercials out of a DVB sourced program and the resultant transcoded file size was about 3x the original!! So I looked at my transcoding settings and changed the target coded to MPEG4 from RTjpeg. This results in smaller file sizes i.e. less than the original rather than mo