My poor mythtv server has been filled to capacity (it's amazing how quickly 250 GB get consumed when you throw HD video at it). Over the weekend I recorded the Florida/Tennessee game, and I wanted to keep the game, but clear off the 36+ GB of space it was consuming. So yesterday evening, I sat around and struggled to get nuvexport to output a decent looking transcoded version of the game. No matter what settings I used, I always got a crappy looking, over-pixelated mess. Tonight, I switched from having ffmpeg running the encoding over to mencoder, and the swing mencoder took at the transcoding produced a nice, sharp xvid down-convert of the HD stream.
So now my server is happily churning away at transcoding the 4 hours of video. The unfortunate part is that even with a decent amd64 processor, I'm still getting about 11fps. Seeing that most of the processor power is spent serving up this site to spammers from around the world, I don't think I'll sweat it too much.
Oh, and I totally have my eye on this. What geek wouldn't want 2 TB of network storage...?
