[linux-dvb] Re: Looking for a Linux 'DV*B*shrink'

[Laurence Culhane <mycroft@holmes.demon.co.uk>]

I normally use transcode to do this job.  It's neither fast nor elegant
and is a bit fiddly - but it works perfectly.  You'll need to split your
MPEG file into separate video and audio streams. 

Work out what bitrate will allow you to fit your recording onto a DVD
and put that in a file (dvd.prof) like this:

max_bitrate=4700000.0

Then transcode the video with a command like this:
transcode -i input.m2v -y mpeg,null -o output -V -F d,,dvd.prof

Hopefully there are more elegant solutions around - this works but has
the drawback that my AthlonXP 2500 only manages about 6fps.

Laurence

On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 20:58, Dr. Peter Bieringer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> sure some of you know about the very nice Windows tool "DVDshrink".
> It's an MPEG2 recompressor which compresses the frames instead of
> recompress a stream completly. This is much faster.
> 
> Does anyone know about the existance of such a tool for Linux?
> 
> And if yes, is this usable for DVB shrinking?
> 
> I (and I'm sure not alone) looking for such a tool to shrink vdr records to
> a size which can be burned on DVD-R.
> 
> E.g. a live music concert record with 160 min duration has a size of 5.5
> GByte, too much for a DVD-R. 20% shrinking would help...
> 
> Thank you very much,
> 
>         Peter
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