Does V9 support Silicondust MP4 Encoding?

[bigbill]

My OTA recordings are still huge and I would like to replace my existing Silicon Dust network tuners with their newest that has hardware mp4 encoding. I read that v7 doesn't support it. Does v9? If not, is it on the roadmap?

I wrote the below cmd line to use ffmpeg to convert them to mp4 which reduces the file size from 6gb to around 1gb. I am going to run this on shows that I don't care about so if it makes them unusable I won't scream about it...

The seems work if you first CD into the directory where the mpg's reside and writes them to the C:\CV folder:

FOR %%g IN (*.mpg) DO c:\cv\ffmpeg -i f:\tvshows\%%g c:\cv\%%~ng.mp4


This is what a typical OTA recorded show looks like with FFPROBE.

C:\CV>ffprobe SaturdayNightLive-The2016SNLElectionSpecial-2452544-0.mpg
ffprobe version N-83372-g08b0981 Copyright (c) 2007-2017 the FFmpeg developers
built with gcc 5.4.0 (GCC)
configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-cuda --enable-cuvid --enable-d3d11va --enable-dxva2 --enable-libmfx --enable-nvenc --enable-avisynth --enable-bzlib --enable-fontconfig --enable-frei0r --enable-gnutls --enable-iconv --enable-libass --enable-libbluray --enable-libbs2b --enable-libcaca --enable-libfreetype --enable-libgme --enable-libgsm --enable-libilbc --enable-libmodplug --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libopenh264 --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libopus --enable-librtmp --enable-libsnappy --enable-libsoxr --enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora --enable-libtwolame --enable-libvidstab --enable-libvo-amrwbenc --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libwavpack --enable-libwebp --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libxavs --enable-libxvid --enable-libzimg --enable-lzma --enable-decklink --enable-zlib
libavutil 55. 46.100 / 55. 46.100
libavcodec 57. 75.100 / 57. 75.100
libavformat 57. 66.101 / 57. 66.101
libavdevice 57. 2.100 / 57. 2.100
libavfilter 6. 72.100 / 6. 72.100
libswscale 4. 3.101 / 4. 3.101
libswresample 2. 4.100 / 2. 4.100
libpostproc 54. 2.100 / 54. 2.100
Input #0, mpeg, from 'SaturdayNightLive-The2016SNLElectionSpecial-2452544-0.mpg':
Duration: 00:59:56.71, start: 93263.411278, bitrate: 15184 kb/s
Stream #0:0[0x1e0]: Video: mpeg2video (Main), yuv420p(tv, top first), 1920x1080 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], Closed Captions, 29.97 fps, 29.97 tbr, 90k tbn, 59.94 tbc
Stream #0:1[0x80]: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, 5.1(side), fltp, 384 kb/s
Stream #0:2[0x81]: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, mono, fltp, 192 kb/s

[Fuzzy]

I think OpenDCT supports it - I can't verify though, as I don't have one of the newer models.

[EnterNoEscape]

OpenDCT supports using the H.264 encoding available from the HDHomeRun Extends since 0.4.25. It does not end up changing the container format to .mp4.

[bigbill]

Ah Thanks! I guess i will need to figure out what that is... and how to use it!!