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How do I convert WTV (and DVR-MS) files into a smaller standard format?

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The external hard drive on my HTPC is almost full and so I'm going to need to convert a large number of the films recorded from the television (in WTV format) into something smaller. At present, a 2 hour film is about 3-4GB. I've tried converting the WTV file to DVR-MS (using the built in ) and the…

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handbrakecli.exe --input "film.dvr-ms" --output "film.mp4" --encoder x264 --quality 20

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Please note: When this answer was written (July 2012), ffmpeg couldn't convert WTV files without loss of audio. However testing on ffmpeg 4.0.0 has shown that it now works fine and, as a result, there is no need to use to pre-convert the WTV file to…

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