Re: Transcoding quality

[Jens Georg <mail jensge org>]

On Sa, 2012-08-04 at 15:37 -0700, Konstantin Svist wrote:
> I just got PS3 transcoding working (thanks for the help, Jens Georg!), 
> but the quality is really low.
> The input file I'm trying is a 1280x720 MKV, but the transcoded result 
> is about 320x240, if that. I don't expect full HD quality (machine 
> running rygel is a NAS box with Athlon X2 3800+ dual core), but this is 
> barely watchable...

That would be weird, unless you managed to fix the MP4 transcoder, which
does 352x288, the PS3 should pick either the EU SD stream at 720x576 or
the NA HD stream at 1280x720. (You can check with running rygel with -g
5 and G_MESSAGES_DEBUG=all environment variable set)

Are you now using 0.14 or 0.15? The bitrate settings in 0.14 make the
transcoding look _really_ bad.