I'm one of thouse looking for more user configurability in the transcode setup... And I know I saw a developer post on this list that they had done a lot of work twoards that goal but haven't been able to find it.<br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/20/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Paul B. Henson</b> <<a href="mailto:henson@acm.org">henson@acm.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>Disk space on my air2pc based HD Myth box is getting tight, so I've been<br>looking into transcoding to decrease the size of some of the recordings.<br><br>I've successfully transcoded some of my high-definition recordings to lower
<br>resolution MPEG4 with considerable size savings, from 4 GB to about 800MB.<br>Visual quality is excellent, while not as good as the original, very<br>watchable particularly for less important shows.<br><br>However, there is a very noticeable difference in quality between the
<br>original AC3 dolby digital 5.1 soundtrack and the transcoded MP3 version.<br><br>What I would really like to do is transcode the video to MPEG4 but leave<br>the audio alone, ending up with an MPEG4/AC3 media stream. However, there
<br>doesn't appear to be any option in the built in transcoding implementation<br>to allow for this.<br><br>Reviewing the mailing list archives, I saw a couple of mentions of people<br>wanting similar functionality, but no resolutions.
<br><br>I think it would be possible to achieve this with a user job that<br>transcodes using third-party utilities, but I haven't been able to find a<br>good source of information on setting up user jobs.<br><br>Would there be any interest in an enhancement request to allow the internal
<br>transcoding to support audio passthru?<br><br>Also, could anyone possibly provide a pointer to a good source of<br>documentation for user jobs, in particular relevant to transcoding?<br><br>Thanks much...<br><br><br>--
<br>Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | <a href="http://www.csupomona.edu/~henson/">http://www.csupomona.edu/~henson/</a><br>Operating Systems and Network Analyst | <a href="mailto:henson@csupomona.edu">henson@csupomona.edu
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