Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Anyone tried MPEG2 to MPEG2 transcoding?

2005-07-22 Thread Phill Edwards
I would also suggest that a lossy reencode to MPEG2 would not be without merit at the point in time. People have struggled with getting MPEG2 captures burned to DVD (sans commercials) for the same reasons as above. As I understand it, transcoding from within Myth basically decodes

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Anyone tried MPEG2 to MPEG2 transcoding?

2005-07-21 Thread Lane Schwartz
On 7/20/05, Phill Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ooops - major stuff up here, folks :(( Many, many apologies. It turns out that I'm not transcoding to MPEG2 at all. I must have set it back to MPEG4, although I really don't remember doing that. Anyway, that's why it appears to be working. I'm

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Anyone tried MPEG2 to MPEG2 transcoding?

2005-07-21 Thread Chris Petersen
Ooops - major stuff up here, folks :(( Many, many apologies. It turns out that I'm not transcoding to MPEG2 at all. I must have set it back to MPEG4, although I really don't remember doing that. Anyway, that's why it appears to be working. I'm really sorry about that. Someone tried a couple of

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Anyone tried MPEG2 to MPEG2 transcoding?

2005-07-21 Thread Cory Papenfuss
Someone tried a couple of years ago to get mpeg2 transcoding to work, and could never get it to work properly. That's why Gavin (Beirdo) wrote the mpeg2cut module for me to include in nuvexport. So far, avidemux is the *only* program capable of true lossless mpeg2 cutting (without resorting

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Anyone tried MPEG2 to MPEG2 transcoding?

2005-07-21 Thread Simon Kenyon
On Thursday 21 July 2005 17:09, Cory Papenfuss wrote: The problem (as I've painfully discovered and discussed before) is that the ivtv cards change the audio and video relative timestamps (PTS, DTS, etc). That information is at the PS level, and avidemux blindly strips PS into A and V. If

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Anyone tried MPEG2 to MPEG2 transcoding?

2005-07-21 Thread Cory Papenfuss
On Thursday 21 July 2005 17:09, Cory Papenfuss wrote: The problem (as I've painfully discovered and discussed before) is that the ivtv cards change the audio and video relative timestamps (PTS, DTS, etc). That information is at the PS level, and avidemux blindly strips PS into A and V. If the

[mythtv-users] Re: Anyone tried MPEG2 to MPEG2 transcoding?

2005-07-20 Thread Phill Edwards
I went ahead and tried this out and the results are as follows: A)- The jobs show up in the system status screen in red font as Failed, which would indicate that the transcoding didn't happen...however... B) From looking at the size of the recordings in the Delete screen the files are

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Anyone tried MPEG2 to MPEG2 transcoding?

2005-07-20 Thread Brad Fuller
Phill Edwards wrote: Just an update on this for future reference. It appears that the transcoding from MPEG2 to MPEG2 is now wokring. I'm no longer getting jobs showing up as failed in the system status screen, and the files are being transcoded to a smaller size. I have no idea why they were

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Anyone tried MPEG2 to MPEG2 transcoding?

2005-07-20 Thread Andrew Close
On 7/20/05, Phill Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip/ Just an update on this for future reference. It appears that the transcoding from MPEG2 to MPEG2 is now wokring. I'm no longer getting jobs showing up as failed in the system status screen, and the files are being transcoded to a smaller

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Anyone tried MPEG2 to MPEG2 transcoding?

2005-07-20 Thread Phill Edwards
would you mind sharing the settings you have for mpeg2 to mpeg2 transcode? did this cut the commercials out for you (assuming you had a cutlist or ran commercial flagging)? thanks Ooops - major stuff up here, folks :(( Many, many apologies. It turns out that I'm not transcoding to MPEG2 at

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Anyone tried MPEG2 to MPEG2 transcoding?

2005-07-20 Thread Nick Rout
Ooops - major stuff up here, folks :(( Many, many apologies. It turns out that I'm not transcoding to MPEG2 at all. I must have set it back to MPEG4, although I really don't remember doing that. Anyway, that's why it appears to be working. I'm really sorry about that. It is also why you are

[mythtv-users] Re: Anyone tried MPEG2 to MPEG2 transcoding?

2005-07-14 Thread Phill Edwards
Looking through the archives I've found that it's possible top set up MPEG2 to MPEG2 automatic transcoding by issuing the following update command in mysql: update recordingprofiles set videocodec = MPEG-2 where name = MPEG2; I want to give this a go because I want to keep my recordings