[mythtvnz] Damages and archiving

[Nick Rout]

On Jan 31, 2008 11:35 AM, Dean Pemberton <dean at deanpemberton.com> wrote:
> Criggie wrote:
> >
> > Its no consolation, but the same would have happened with video tape too.
> >
> >
> >
> Yeah thats how I explained it to my wife. =)
>
> While I'm posting an email.  I've been wondering what people do about
> archiving shows off.  Do people have cool auto transcoding jobs set up
> etc?  Or do people just leave them where they are and archive to DVD if
> they really want to save it.
>
> It occurs to me that there are some things which I wouldn't mind having
> around, but xvid would save a lot more space than mpeg2.
>
> So come on - regale me with your tricky auto-archiving stories =)
>
> Dean
>

I haven't set anything automatic, but I do know one list member who
transcodes everything.

I have used a combination of projectx and avidemux to cut and encode
to xvid and x264, but its pretty manual and more suited to one offs.


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