[mythtvnz] MPEG, Kino and DVD's

[Steven Ellis]

Scott Newton wrote:
> On Saturday 06 January 2007 16:00, Steven Ellis wrote:
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>> 1. Is the file from MythTV or another source?
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> In this case yes.
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>> 2. Have you taken a look at Avidemux2 ?
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> No when you wrote this but I have now. The not having to transform the mpeg to 
> dv is a vast improvement (not to mention disk space usage).
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>> Couple things if you use Avidemux rather than kino.
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>> 1. You don't always have to re-encode. You can just cut the MPEG2 file.
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> Which makes it a lot faster...
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>> 2. If you do need to re-encode you can do a 2-pass encode based on final
>> file size.
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> Which options do you recommend? From reading the avidemux wiki it looks like I 
> need to set Video to Mpeg4 (lavc) and in the Configure set encoding type to 
> two pass and set my target size. And in the Audio change to FFm MP2 and in 
> the Configure make the bitrate 48 kbits. Do I need to change any of the other 
> options?
>   
If it is from MythTV leave everything as "Copy" as the streams are DVD
compliant. No need to re-encode.

Set the output to MPEG-PS and just chop the adverts out.

Otherwise use the MythTV lossless transcoder and edit on screen under
MythTV.

Steve

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