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| computers:media:encoding:start [2011/03/12 18:28] – david | computers:media:encoding:start [2011/05/26 16:45] (current) – david |
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| Well, I've not had too much success with Mythtv's built in transcoding, probably due to a bad setup on my part. I have found that if I use the "Super" encoder on the raw .MPG file recordings, it does a very nice job of crunching down (especially cartoons for the kids) the files from their original HD size to something manageable for archive. | Well, I've not had too much success with Mythtv's built in transcoding, probably due to a bad setup on my part. I have found that if I use the "Super" encoder on the raw .MPG file recordings, it does a very nice job of crunching down (especially cartoons for the kids) the files from their original HD size to something manageable for archive. |
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| * First thing to do is make symbolic links to the recordings so I can copy them all properly named in human readable format. I am using these two things for that: | - First thing to do is make symbolic links to the recordings so I can copy them all properly named in human readable format. I am using these two things for that: |
| - [[http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Mythname.pl|Mythname.pl]] (which I put in **~/bin/mythname.pl**) to give us a command line program that can interogate the data base to find the name of the recording. | - [[http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Mythname.pl|Mythname.pl]] (which I put in **~/bin/mythname.pl**) to give us a command line program that can interogate the data base to find the name of the recording. |
| - This little bash script that will make symbolic links right where you are <code bash> | - This little bash script that will make symbolic links right where you are <code bash> |
| for filename in /var/lib/mythtv/recordings/*.mpg | for filename in /var/lib/mythtv/recordings/*.mpg |
| do | do |
| fname=`mythname.pl --rep=. --subtitle $filename` | # windows did not like the colons in the name, so changing to underscores and periods |
| | fname=`mythname.pl --rep=. --subtitle $filename | tr : _ | tr ';.' .`.mpg |
| echo "Linking $filename to $fname" | echo "Linking $filename to $fname" |
| ln -s $filename $fname | ln -s $filename $fname |
| exit 0 | exit 0 |
| </code> | </code> |
| | - Download everything to your PC with "Super" on it |
| | - Use this ({{:computers:media:encoding:super_transcodearthursettings.png?64|}}) configuration for transcoding |
| | - Dump all the files into SUPER and wait a very long time! |
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| ===== Mythtv to DVD ===== | ===== Mythtv to DVD ===== |
