vdr-convert is a tool to accurately transcode VDR1.x and VDR2.x
TV recordings, including all valid streams - video, audio
(including AC3/DTS 5.1), Audio Description (AD), and DVB subtitles
- into more compressed and accessible formats, while maintaining
perceived quality with good compatibility.
The new Podcast mode provides highly compressed and fully
metadata-tagged audio (i.e. radio recording) files suitable for
portable players, using up-to-date codec options for more
flexibility, better quality and compression than typical broadcaster
MP3 downloads.
An optional post-processing command has been added to trigger
re-indexing by a media server such as a Squeezeserver.
See https://projects.vdr-developer.org/projects/vdr-convert/wiki/Podcast-mode
Changelog:
- Added --podcast option: podcasts stored in subdirectories, by
Title (like VDR itself)
- Podcast audio codec config: Can use (HE)AAC, Opus or MP3
- Extensive embedding of metadata in output files (mainly for
podcasts)
- Added -g option for genre files to define mapping of VDR's G
tag to text
- Significant H265 setting updates to reflect recent
improvements
- Slight H264 compression increase to reflect recent
improvements
- More extensive checking of ffmpeg build options (codec library
checks)
- Detect short initial recording files & delete (VPS aborted
start)
- Various other fixes and improvements, incl. for FTP/redo modes
- Fixes for recent ffmpeg versions (3.3+)