[mythtvnz] Convert mythtv nz terrestial freeview recordings to mp4

[Steve Hodge]

On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Jonathan Hoskin
<jonathan.hoskin at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> 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.
>

He said the video was fine. That means that both the container format and
the video codec is ok. It's just the audio that needs transcoding.

Cheers,
Steve
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