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<DIV><BR>I use this for the interlaced channels i.e. TV3,4,5,6,7,8 20 etc<BR><BR>Handbrakecli -i "freeview.mpg" -t 1 -c 1 -o "freeview.avi" -f avi --crop<BR>0:0:0:0 --deinterlace="slower" --decomb -p --detelecine -e xvid -q 1 -r 25<BR>-a 1 -E lame -B 320 -R 48 -6 dpl1 -D 2.5 -v<BR><BR>And this on the progressive TV1 & 2 (720p channels)<BR>Handbrakecli -i "freeview.mpg" -t 1 -c 1 -o "freeview.avi" -f avi --crop<BR>0:0:0:0 -e xvid -q 1 -r 25 -a 1 -E lame -B 320 -R 48 -6 dpl1 -D 2.5 -v<BR><BR>This gives you a rather big Lossless XVID .. (the -q 1 will give you 100% of<BR>original)<BR>Then edit out the start/end/adverts from the xvid using Virtualdub, avidemux<BR>or whatever your favorite video editor is and encode out to your the final<BR>format. <BR>I still encode everything out to Xvid using data rates of @1800k for SD , or<BR>between 3000-3500k for 720p, which gives very close to original h.264 <BR>And prefer using virtualdub
on windows, as the encoded as the status window<BR>for the second pass, gives the quantizer display for how well the codec is<BR>doing on encoding into the specific bitrate.<BR><BR>Shame Handbrake has no editing feature, nor any feedback during the encode.<BR>Great tool for deinterlacing & converting h.264 into something more useful<BR>than standard tools can use thou.. Note if you miss off the framerate (-r 25)<BR>handbrake encodes TV1 &2 & 50fps... even thou it's progressive 25fps.<BR>Also one of the sound options in handbrake completely kills playback on<BR>mplayer on my 9.04 box.. <BR>I forget which option, but haven't encoded anything that I've kept the<BR>surround sound on..<BR></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><BR>Regards<BR>Geoff<BR><BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV dir=ltr>Thanks for the info - looks like I will be looking into some of these tools - HandBrake and Virtualdub .</DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr>I take it there is no way to transcode via myth first and honor the cut list. I am finding that the Myth Commflag is about 80% accurate for cutting out adverts - the cutlist only needs a little adjustment after commflag - so it saves heaps of time compared to editing in another package and having to find the adverts manually.</DIV></div><br>
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