<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">> Transcoding FreeviewHD from MythTV.<br>
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> Should the ffmpeg in Ubuntu9.04 be able to transcode h.264 AVC into<br>
> mpeg-2 ?<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>[Insert rant about slow FFMpeg release cycles here]</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">If you only want to transcode to mpeg2 then I think the MythTV transcode</div>
utility should do the job for you.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Nope. Mythtranscode doesn't support H.264 (not with autodetect at least). Eg:</div><div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">$ mythtranscode -e dvd -i recordings/2002_20100326081400.mpg -o tmp/test.mpg</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">2010-03-26 10:22:21.410 Using runtime prefix = /usr</font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'courier new', monospace; ">...</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'courier new', monospace; ">2010-03-26 10:22:22.215 Transcode: Looking for autodetect profile: Autodetect from 720p</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">2010-03-26 10:22:22.233 Transcode: Couldn't find profile for : H.264</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">2010-03-26 10:22:22.233 Transcoding aborted, no profile found.</font></div><div> </div><div>Have you tried clvc (CLI based VLC) to get what you want? That's what I use for transcoding H.264 to other formats.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Jonathan</div><div><br></div></div>