[mythtv] Ticket #6158: Add Export to MythVideo Functionality to Watch Recordings

[Robert McNamara]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Matt S. <skd5aner at gmail.com> wrote:
> Robert - you've done a great job here... I love this idea.  For a
> while, I would manually export shows and series via nuvexport, and
> then have them put them in mythvideo.  However, this didn't really
> save the metadata and nuvexport hasn't worked properly in years now.
> I've got TONS of shows that I have sitting around that I would love to
> export to a much better (compressed) format, with very few options for
> doing that today.
>
> I was curious, is there any consideration for including away to
> transcode these videos before exporting them into alternative formats
> (.mkv, h.264, xvid, etc) as part of the export functionality?  Maybe
> you're not interested in doing that in this first generation, but I
> think that would be a very cool feature to have on top of what you've
> already started!
>
> Keep up the good work!
>
> Thanks!
> Matt
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If I were to go that direction, I would be more or less recreating
functionality that exists between user jobs and mythtranscode--
When/if the transcode functionality is folded into the backend someday
and can be easily called, I can see having a user-defined export path,
but for right now, this is purely for exporting a recording as-is.
For now, if one wants  commercial cut/container format
changes/transcode, they should set up a user job to do so, then run
the export when ready.

Robert