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I've been away from my TV too. Except in my case, I've been missing my
Red Sox games since I've been staying in Central PA. I use nuvexport to
transcode games down to 320kbps DivX streams at 352x240 -- around 75M
for half an hour. Yes, it's kind of crappy looking and I can barely
read the game stats shown on the screen, but I can catch most of the
action. I recently wrote a quick and dirty web script that loads the
commercial cutlist for the program so that nuvexport can skip the ads.
Once I got that into place, most half-hour shows (in reality 20-21
minutes) came in around 50M.<br>
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Timothy Weaver wrote:<br>
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About nine months ago, I setup a mythtv box. Using Jarod's instructions, I
had no difficulty setting up mythtv running on Red Hat 9.0 using a P4 2.5
GHz, 512MB of RAM and a PVR-250.
The purpose was nothing short of survival. I currently live in Europe but
setup the box at a friend's house in the USA so that I could record and
download my favorite TV shows (How could I live without Curb Your
Enthusiasm?). This has worked just fine. The only downside is that, even
with my friend's "business" cable connection that provides about 40kbps
upstream, downloading a 30 minute show is about 3-4 hours using my current
encoding profile settings.
Those settings are currently 720x480 with a max bitrate of 3000 and audio
at 48000 and 96k. There is only an analog cable input to the PVR-250, so I
am sure those settings are overkill and are making the files larger than
they need to be for the quality I would find acceptable.
My question is can someone suggest better settings? Obviously, I can test a
variety of encoding settings but it's not so painless because I then have
to download the file before visually inspecting it.
Currently, my idea is to drop the resolution to NTSC level (approx 352x525)
while leaving the max bitrate at 3000. Am I heading in the right direction
with this change?
Also, I would like to define the Low Quality profile for recording animated
shows like The Simpsons or South Park. Any ideas what settings I should use
for that?
Should I look at transcoding to something other than MPEG files? If so,
what? I know I cannot yet use the commercial cut functionality on MPEG
files, so that will have to wait.
All help, advice, feedback, criticisms, and monetary donations are
appreciated.
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