Re: Transcoding quality

[Konstantin Svist <fry kun gmail com>]

On 08/05/2012 02:30 AM, Jens Georg wrote:
> 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.

0.14 -- and that would explain it :)
I figured it's best to use a "stable" version as long as I got it 
working, but I'll try 0.15 again