Transcode for Dreambox

[dreams]

Hi all

I searched the forums but did'n find what I need, so here's my question:

How do I transcode AVIs for my dreambox 600 PVR?
Inside the avi theres DivX video with mp3 sound, I need a MPEG2 TS with MPEG Audio.
I thought vlc would do, I used VLC 0.9.2 with these setting:
Encapsulation: MPEG-TS
Videocodec: MPEG-2, Bitrate 2048 kb/s, Scale 1
Audiocodec: MPEG Audio, Bitrate 192 kb/s, Channels 2
It actually did play on my dreambox, but I got bad block artefacts around moving objects.

What did I do wrong, or how do I do it right?
Thank you in advance

[jagabo]

Try AviDemux.

[dreams]

Thank you, I'll try.
Wow, this has 2 GUIs plus command line. I'll take the qt4 GUI...
Now.... what options do I have to use...?

[poisondeathray]

Avidemux claims support for dreambox. You can check their forum for assistance too.

1) video sidebar => DVD (lavc), configure your settings (e.g. bitrate)

2) audio sidebar => MP2 (Twolame), configure your settings (e.g. bitrate)

3) format sidebar => MPEG-TS (A+V)

4) save with extension (e.g. "myfile.ts")

If your source was low quality to begin with, your output will look worse (garbage in = worse garbage out)

[dreams]

Settings that worked for me:
video bitrate: "2pass avg. bitrate", avg. rate 4096, max bitrate: 9000, min bitrate 2048
audio bitrate: 192...

dreams