On Wednesday 23 March 2005 06:34, Craig Sanders wrote: > ok, i give up. i've been trying for days to figure out how to reliably > convert vdr recordings to divx to save space (approx 300-400MB/hour vs > approx 2GB/hr) . the best i've managed is that *some* recordings can be > converted, but some won't. i have no idea why some work and some don't - > as far as i can tell, it seems to be random (but i know it can't be). 1) configure mplayer with --enable-largefiles 2) don't ever cut the recordings with vdr 3) run the recording through vdrsync.pl -mpeg2 4) optionally use avidemux to cut (hint: the way to not get any artifacts at cut points is to cut so that the last frame in a segment will be a p frame and the first in the next segment an i frame) out anything you don't want in the final file, I suggest avidemux 2.0.36. .38 seems a bit messed up 5) run the resulting one big mpeg2 file through mencoder Sometimes there's a sound sync problem but so far every time for me it has been constant, never drifting so it's easy to fix with avidemux or avisync.
