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You can already run whatever commands you want to in PostProcessing.bat (or PostConversion.bat), which can be used to do two pass conversion if thats what you want.

[Cahill84]

That's not what I was meaning. What I meant was do the first scan while it's recording similar to the way comskip works like you can check it off in config "Run during recording, instead of after recording." If your response is saying that I can do that... Ummmm. How, because I evidently am missing a conceptual view of how it's processing stuff.

What I was hoping to look into was get a higher quality video by running the first analysis pass during the recording and then the conversion to an avi afterwards. The result would be better compression and less time post processing I believe.

Does that make sense?

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That's not what I was meaning. What I meant was do the first scan while it's recording similar to the way comskip works like you can check it off in config "Run during recording, instead of after recording." If your response is saying that I can do that... Ummmm. How, because I evidently am missing a conceptual view of how it's processing stuff.

I doubt you'd be able to do this. comskip was specifically designed with the intention of being able to run against a recording that was still in progress. ffmpeg, which is used to do all transcodes, is not - and would like catch up with the recording point within a second or so, and assume it had reached the end of the file and exit.

What I was hoping to look into was get a higher quality video by running the first analysis pass during the recording and then the conversion to an avi afterwards. The result would be better compression and less time post processing I believe.

Does that make sense?

Sure, there is probably the potential to save a little time getting to the final result, but I dont think its possible. If you want these higher quality/better compression conversions, you can do it, but you'd need to do it post recording - which I suspect would be just fine for most people. The only difference would be how quickly that final .avi would be available. Before its ready though, remember you can always watch the original .mpg/.dvr-ms file, so time doesnt seem so critical to me.