[mythtvnz] Advice for encoding ...

[Steven Ellis]

On 24/05/2009, at 9:45 PM, Jonathan Hoskin wrote:

> I convert my kids stuff down into MP4 files. Video: H264 @ 1500k,  
> Audio: AAC @ 160k. It's quite lossy but the kids don't care how  
> pixelated Hi-5 is.
>
> Roughly 800-900MB per hour - I've never gotten too scientific with  
> exact sizes.
>
> Shock horror - I actually use Handbrake on OSX for most of my  
> transcoding. My wife's Macbook has more grunt than my pvr. It also  
> comes in handy for doing stuff for my iPhone, PS3, etc without  
> spending three hours on Google figuring out how.
>

With a good encoder H.264 at 1500k should look quite good

I transcode Lazytown for my daughter to H.264 at around 1500k and it  
generally looks as good as the broadcast MPEG2 SD streams, and yes  
handbrake rocks.


Steven Ellis - Technical Director
OpenMedia Limited
email   - steven at openmedia.co.nz
website - http://www.openmedia.co.nz

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