xvid+mp3 tips and tricks!

[Humperdinck]

Dear Forum,

I just upgraded to GBPVR09516 and noticed the following tips & tricks regarding how to convert recordings to xvid. I have the Hauppauge PVR250, the freeware lame mp3 encoder installed.

I noticed that recording and converting worked fine, however the bitrate of the sound was 128kb and also, the sound was MP2. After reading a bit in the forum and above all on the homepage of FFMPEG I found where to change the settings for it, it's in config.xml on the line that goes:

<Conversion name="XviD" cmd="-y -i {SOURCE_FILE} -f avi -ab 128 -ac 2 -vcodec xvid -b 1250 {DEST_FILE}" targetExtension=".avi" />

Change this line to something like below

<Conversion name="XviD" cmd="-y -i {SOURCE_FILE} -f avi -ab 224 -ac 2 -acodec mp3 -vcodec xvid -b 1250 {DEST_FILE}" targetExtension=".avi" />

And the bitrate will be 224 with MP3.

Now, if anyone has any more tips, for instance on how to optimize the settings for ffmpeg for quality/size please let me know.

Thanks to SUB for an excellent software and Merry Christmas all!

/Humperdinck

[LilY0da]

There's a thread where we discussed a lot of the settings for XviD encoding here
http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...light=XviD

[Humperdinck]

Ok, I'll post to that thread instead.