Best eyeTV export format for H.264 encoding on different computer?
Before I post this on the Elgato forum, I thought I'd check whether anybody has overcome this here.
I'm using a Mac mini to record the occasional UK Freeview SD video - mainly 720x576 movies that appear to be anamorphic and get converted to 1280x720 H.264 letterbox format that look good enough on my LCD TV. However it's hard work for the old G4 and takes about 12 hours to encode per hour of source material.
I also have a Windows XP dual Athlon box with Quicktime 7 Pro that is running most of the day and I am pretty confident that it can do the job a little bit quicker. However, I cannot work out what format to use when exporting from eyeTV that I can then copy onto the XP box to encode into H.264. It needs to be some kind of uncompressed 'raw' format that retains the widescreen but whatever I've tried so far either cannot be read by QT7 on the PC, ends up 720x576 leterbox with no upscaling, or look rubbish because I've ended up going the eyeTV --> QT movie MPEG4 (out of G4) --> H.264 (out of Athlon) route.
I hope this makes sense. Has anybody else had to do this and perfected a workflow?
I'm using a Mac mini to record the occasional UK Freeview SD video - mainly 720x576 movies that appear to be anamorphic and get converted to 1280x720 H.264 letterbox format that look good enough on my LCD TV. However it's hard work for the old G4 and takes about 12 hours to encode per hour of source material.
I also have a Windows XP dual Athlon box with Quicktime 7 Pro that is running most of the day and I am pretty confident that it can do the job a little bit quicker. However, I cannot work out what format to use when exporting from eyeTV that I can then copy onto the XP box to encode into H.264. It needs to be some kind of uncompressed 'raw' format that retains the widescreen but whatever I've tried so far either cannot be read by QT7 on the PC, ends up 720x576 leterbox with no upscaling, or look rubbish because I've ended up going the eyeTV --> QT movie MPEG4 (out of G4) --> H.264 (out of Athlon) route.
I hope this makes sense. Has anybody else had to do this and perfected a workflow?
1.25GHz G4 Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.4.11), Miglia Micro TV
