[vdr] Transcoding to mpeg2

["Nigel Magnay" <nigel.magnay@activiti.com>]

I'm guessing there may be a few people on this list that are doing transcoding to mpeg2 in order to view non mp2 videos with VDR.

 

I'm currently using a line of

 

mencoder -o bb2.mpeg -of mpeg -ovc lavc -lavcopts 
vcodec=mpeg2video:vbitrate=5000 -vop scale=720:576 -oac lavc bb.avi

 

To do my transcoding. This works fine, but on my 933Mhz C3 I get a glorious convesion rate of about 9fps. I kinda expected this because

the C3 isn't the fastest machine in the world and MPEG2 is known to be quite expensive.

 

So - are there any good 'options' I can pass to mencoder that people have discovered - notably, I don't care about the output file size particularly, my

high value for vbitrate= was to try and save it some time in compressing.

 

I'm probably going to buy a 3Ghz P4 or something to act as my transcoding box - does anyone know if that should be sufficient ?

 

 

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