[mythtvnz] Convert mythtv nz terrestial freeview recordings to mp4

[Jonathan Hoskin]

On Sunday, 21 October 2012 at 4:33 PM, David Tildesley wrote:

> Hi. I understand the freeview terrestial broadcast are in mp4 format but with some sort of mpeg2 wrapper? How then to quickly convert them to a format that android can use (tried the mpeg2 files with android and the sound doesn't work, while the picture is just fine).
> 
> I currently use Handbrake to convert them but it takes an age and it seems a waste converting the videos just so that I can get the sound to work on Android.

The video is interlaced H.264, and the audio is LATM AAC. 

You could try copying the video and audio streams into a supported container format, without re-encoding. However, I would doubt that Android has the capability to play interlaced video. Which means that you'll have to do re-encoding of everything anyway.

I play a lot of my content on iDevices, and rather than trying to transcode everything ahead of time, I just live transcode it from my various backends using AirVideo / Plex / whatever at time of watching.


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Jonathan Hoskin

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