dodgexander wrote:
Regarding the directly to H264, yes you can tweak the profiles to do that (as I mentioned above) but I would discourage it since it would yield a lower quality video (too complex to get into here but the mpeg2 recode is actually almost lossless)
But is it normal to have 30% of recordings failing the fast remux? The recordings that fail to fast remux playback fine.It could be 100% of recordings if the show(s) you are recording are corrupted, sometimes to do with channels sometimes to do with tuners etc. There's no way to tell. Some folks only records 2 shows and if those 2 channels have an issue you see where I'm going.
What else I am asking is, instead of the .ts unprocessed profile to recode to mpeg2 when it fails, can't it recode to h264 instead?
The conversion process would be then:
h264>h264 copy (fail)>h264 recode
rather than
h264>h264 copy(fail)>mpeg2 recode
Regarding the directly to H264, yes you can tweak the profiles to do that (as I mentioned above) but I would discourage it since it would yield a lower quality video (too complex to get into here but the mpeg2 recode is actually almost lossless)