[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #2468: Mythtranscode removing audio and subtitles and audio tracks swapping places.

[John Pilkington]

MythTV wrote:
> #2468: Mythtranscode removing audio and subtitles and audio tracks swapping
> places.
> -------------------------------+--------------------------------------------
>  Reporter:  lofty69 at gmail.com  |        Owner:  ghaushe
>      Type:  defect             |       Status:  closed 
>  Priority:  minor              |    Milestone:  0.21.1 
> Component:  mythtranscode      |      Version:  0.20   
>  Severity:  medium             |   Resolution:  fixed  
>   Mlocked:  1                  |  
> -------------------------------+--------------------------------------------
> Changes (by stuartm):
> 
>   * status:  accepted => closed
>   * resolution:  => fixed
>   * mlocked:  0 => 1
>   * milestone:  unknown => 0.21.1
> 
> 
> Comment:
> 
>  The original issue of audio swapping has been dealt with according to
>  J.Pilk. Ghause has stated that keeping subtitles when transcoding is a
>  difficult feature request and as such, the ticket is no longer valid.
> 
I have just spent a significant amount of time composing a qualification 
to my comment quoted above, only to find that the ticket had been 
locked.  Deja vu - see VDPAU.

I felt I should say that I have no recent experience of using 
mythtranscode on recordings with more than one video and one audio 
stream, because I now use mencoder before mythtranscode to avoid the 
quite frequent failures that appeared to be caused by the disappearance 
of the secondary audio stream.  I still choose the wanted audio stream 
interactively although it would probably be sufficient for my use, with 
dvb-t in the uk, to automate selection of the 'stereo' stream.

I'm using the ATrpms 0.21-bijou builds on fc10 and CentOS5.2 boxes.

Despite Geoff's statement it still seems difficult to understand why 
applying a cutlist to a subtitled dvb-t recording should be so difficult 
if there is no need to convert to some other format.  The transport 
streams exist and the player can obey a cutlist, so why can't the 
modified streams that are used by the player be recorded?  Don't we have 
a suitable remuxer?  *Must* the output be PS?

John P