Roger Heflin wrote: > stuart wrote: >> The most troublesome handicap centers on the >> mvpmc inabilities to play back HD videos and any video with AC3 sound. >> >> We can transcode everything mythtv records to SD video quality and >> stereo sound. But there isn't a good way to keep the original HD >> recording. And there doesn't appear a way to offer up 2 versions (HD >> and SD) of a recording even if we keep both. > > I would guess with some knowledge of how to add/delete things to > the myth server it would be possible to copy and add a separate > entry for the hd entry after you have trancoded it...
Yeah, that'd be pretty easy to do. You just need to clone a record or two (nuvexport has examples of accessing the data from Perl, though I don't recall if it has been updated to use the newer MythTV Perl bindings). After transcoding you'd need to run mythcommflag --rebuild to rebuild the seek table (see my transcode_mpeg2 script I posted earlier). You could use recording groups as a way to keep the new and old recording separate. The script, for example, could take the currently assigned recording group and append "_mvpmc" to it, or something like that. That way with appropriate filtering of recording groups in mvpmc you wouldn't see two entries for the same show. But I'd be hard pressed to implement any solution that required twice the disk space. Then again, I don't yet have any HD capable front-ends, so I'd have no need to keep the HD version around. > ...the default transcode jobs only do mpeg4... Well, MPEG4 or RTJpeg. I've ran into a roadblock in transcoding some shows I recorded in RTJpeg (before I switched to MPEG4). RTJpeg can't be directly transcoded by mencoder, and my attempts at using mythtranscode to spool the raw audio to FIFOs that then get read by mencoder results in the audio getting dropped after the first few seconds. (Mplayer reports "Too many video packets in the buffer".) I thought I'd get around that by using mythtranscode to transcode RTJpeg to MPEG4, but despite labeling in the UI that gives you the impression it can do this, it apparently only transcodes RTJpeg to RTJpeg. -Tom ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Mvpmc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mvpmc-users mvpmc wiki: http://mvpmc.wikispaces.com/
