[vdr] Re: Announce: tosvcd 0.5

[Carsten Koch <Carsten.Koch@icem.de>]

Werner wrote:
...
> i've just uploaded version 0.5 of tosvcd to
>       http://muse.seh.de/tosvcd/

Hi Werner,

thank you very much for this useful tool that allows
me to archives recordings and to share FTA snippets 
with other people.

I have two questions:

1) Is there an option to NOT re-encode the MPEG-2 data?
   I have a Yamakawa DVD player which is quite flexible
   regarding allowed resolutions and data rates, so I would
   like to save the many hours and the quality lost by re-
   encoding.

2) Are you planning to do better data balancing soon?
   I have just created SVCD images with the follwing
   command:

   tosvcd -v -o p -s 732 -q 1 -c 3 

   and the 3 resulting bin files are:
-rw-r--r--    1 cko      users    791154000 May  5 18:55 p-1.bin
-rw-r--r--    1 cko      users    790723584 May  5 18:58 p-2.bin
-rw-r--r--    1 cko      users     3822000 May  5 18:58 p-3.bin

   Which is 754.5 MB, 754.1 MB and 3.6 MB.

   Of course, I expected no file to be bigger than 732 MB
   and I would have liked them all to be about the same size.
   The last image is 21 seconds worth of video.
   What a waste to burn this onto a CD!

Carsten.