[mythtvnz] Transcoding help?...

[Ross and Jemima Knudsen]

Hi all,

Well I was hoping that I might be able to do this all by myself but it 
doesn't look like I will be able to.  I've been trying hard to figure 
out how to transcode recordings so i can store them and free up my 
recording drive.  Last time around it was suggested that Handbrake was 
able to transcode recordings relatively losslessly.  I gave this a go 
using the specified parameters and ended up with a lot of large files 
the majority of which wouldn't play back. 

However one good thing did come from that is that I managed to use the 
patch (based on Paul Kendalls patch) Handbrake have for ffmpeg and apply 
it to the ffmpeg svn, compile and install it.  Now ffmpeg can correctly 
identify the streams in recordings but I can't get it to transcode 
successfully.  If anyone is keen to try giving this a go and try and get 
it to work that would be awesome.  I've tried as much as I can think of 
but I'm still a relative newbie to linux and digital video.  If there is 
some interest I can provide how I managed to do the above.

Initially I'm trying to transcode the audio only (copy the video stream) 
so that I can further process the video like in Avidemux, DeVeDe, etc.  
This should be a relatively quick process as it doesn't have to 
re-encode the video.


Regards
Rossco