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Buckbeak
26th May 2006, 16:34
I've had good luck using Nero Recode to create mp4's (H.264 AVC, not Nero digital) and even bought the full version. But I want to be able to use HDTV transport stream files as input and Recode doesn't appear to support that.

I want to use x264 and have tried several gui's but none of them will process my file. My goal is to get a 10GB - 17GB file down to the size that will fit on a 4.7GB DVD and preserve as much detail and frame size as possible.

I don't mind running x264 from the command line, I might even prefer it, but it doesn't like the arguments I'm passing and keeps spitting out it's "help" screen showing the argument formats. Does anyone have a simple, command line sample to encode a file and create a mp4 container?

check
26th May 2006, 16:45
Well, you need to feed x264 a file it understands. Usually, this means an Avisynth script, you can't just specify a .ts file (correct me if I'm wrong).
Are you sure it doesn't have a single line saying what the error is?