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Originally Posted by laserfan
Another option if you don't want to re-encode at all could be Super MPEG2 Transcoder. Not free, and maybe overkill for what you want to do (I bought it for shrinking HD MPEG2 files, works great) but there's a free trial version you might want to take for a spin... |
I would call that the quick-and-dirty solution instead of overkill. There are many similar MPEG-2 re-quantizers around, some even available as native Linux programs (
Vamps, for example). They are fast, but with a DVB source and low target bitrate, the output quality won't be nearly as good as properly encoded H.264 or even MPEG-4 ASP.