From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 5 21:46:11 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E005B106567B for ; Thu, 5 Jun 2008 21:46:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stapleton.41@gmail.com) Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD8628FC16 for ; Thu, 5 Jun 2008 21:46:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stapleton.41@gmail.com) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id j4so480185wah.3 for ; Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:46:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=Zzy0GEpbiQZwy2sOBlTe2O6W2xBKAMd+JtNiSkVNz/M=; b=FMuS4CXeBLlfTjuQXvjQR0qP8ash8C2H7MvFo7ArP46/3h5zx43uJOt9neYkcbxQXj p64C8s+dGGMpjt4Qhb+hRNiUK1OBhR6yE3V5yDIJ3JJ21Ur96f2bp5reHX6MY0DY2ReC T2W+7N/CwoNBFLVbKt7BdYnj2p0sp7A79SIe8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=FDS0TJR95lG4iOnzirXpoMBDRzjEbCDtoTJ726smaJdQhtqee/0cRwpLaIcxYMYBaM 8taPcOneoQ+teZ4ZPqaL61GRnWff2T3tv/8hBi80VDECewUxCrl/UtT6oy/EZyqo2dyJ 3OAneInqhIQQyhLKynVXxfV45+OP1cO1xN7LA= Received: by 10.114.160.17 with SMTP id i17mr2301053wae.48.1212702371287; Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:46:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.150.14 with HTTP; Thu, 5 Jun 2008 14:46:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <80f4f2b20806051446s7b9b381aid162345771934bbd@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 17:46:11 -0400 From: "Jim Stapleton" To: rick-freebsd@kiwi-computer.com In-Reply-To: <20080601064100.GB13314@keira.kiwi-computer.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <80f4f2b20805290402w84c3f4k3f302385396b6b1c@mail.gmail.com> <20080529170858.GA70632@keira.kiwi-computer.com> <80f4f2b20805301548x2e5e55d2g32267504797ffcdb@mail.gmail.com> <20080601064100.GB13314@keira.kiwi-computer.com> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pvrxxx recording X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:46:12 -0000 OK, I found the problem. The emails made a little voice in the back of my head start screaming "check the output bitrate numbskull!" I looked over the output bitrate and got 360K. I tried upping it to 1200K and 1500K (-b in ffmpeg). It went from reencoding at 4-5x, but the quality looked suitable. Still not as good as the original, but good enough I can watch from my couch (where I like watching TV anyway), without complaints. The problem is, the 22MB/20second file turned into 16 and 17MB respectivly. Not much compression improvement. Can anyone reccomend a format combo that will achive a better quality:size ratio than mpeg2video/mp2/mpeg? If ffmpeg doesn't work well, could I get suggestions for a program (and the port that provides the program)? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton