[mythtv] MythMkMovie

[Wayne Johnson]

Hello Michael,
      Are you going to support vcd/svcd creation also?
Monday, April 28, 2003, 10:55:02 PM, you wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 08:23:34PM -0700, Chris Palmer wrote:
>> Michael J. Pedersen wrote
>> I saw your previous notice about this, but I've seen
>> nothing saying what mythmkmovie is and what it does.
>> Can you explain what it is and its features?  :)

> Wow, now I feel like an idiot. Big one, too. Would've sworn I mentioned
> it somewhere. Ah well, not going to be perfect.

> MythMkMovie acts as a glue between mythtv and mencoder, allowing you to
> take recordings from mythtv, and create a divx out of them. The
> immediate reaction, I'm sure, is that this is no big deal, and certainly
> not worth announcing, except for the fact that it also honors cutlists
> (ie: go and edit out commercials, and your final divx file will be
> commercial free).

> I've also taken care of a few weirdnesses I've found which came about
> because of having mencoder deal with part of a mythtv file. Namely, the
> fact that mencoder, when encoding even 0.1 seconds of a mythtv nuv file,
> will spit out an extra 0.3 seconds of audio (approximately). Finding a
> good way around that took a bit of work.

> It also tries to be a nice, clean way of connecting the two programs
> together, so that you can archive off shows you want to keep around.

> In the end, instead of trying to determine the settings to pass to
> mencoder, you tell mencoder a very few things (and you can set them up
> as defaults very shortly with the next version, in case you don't like
> my choices): video bitrate, audio bitrate, keyframe interval, input
> file, and output file. The rest is automatic.

> It's smart enough to connect to mysql (indeed, it requires this
> ability) to pull info from the mythtv tables, allowing it to show you
> information that is correct, rather than you having to specify it on the
> command line.

> I've got a feeling I'm babbling right now, so I'm going to sign off. I
> know this is something I've written because I found it useful. I'm just
> hoping that other people find it useful too.




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