2005-02-25, 09:35
i haven't done any transcoding on the backend because i've never been able to get it to work properly. i've transcoded stuff with mencoder under win32 (my backend is hopelessly underpowered for anything other than streaming dvb-t to disk).
as a side note, i've also found a way to burn to dvd fairly reliably with no quality loss from the original recording (but slow and manual) - i can use projectx and ifoedit to demultiplex then remultiplex recordings to create a dvd image, then if the show is larger than a single dvd i use dvdshrink to actually burn it to disc. the mythtvburn scripts on sourceforge half-work for me, in that i can burn a dvd image, but the dvd image crashes dvdshrink when i try to resize it to fit into an actual dvd. *sigh*
as a side note, i've also found a way to burn to dvd fairly reliably with no quality loss from the original recording (but slow and manual) - i can use projectx and ifoedit to demultiplex then remultiplex recordings to create a dvd image, then if the show is larger than a single dvd i use dvdshrink to actually burn it to disc. the mythtvburn scripts on sourceforge half-work for me, in that i can burn a dvd image, but the dvd image crashes dvdshrink when i try to resize it to fit into an actual dvd. *sigh*