[mythtv] Update recording file name from command line?

Peter Bennett pb.mythtv at gmail.com
Mon Dec 17 21:52:56 UTC 2018



On 12/17/18 11:49 AM, Richard Shaw wrote:
> I still use a combined FE/BE in the living room but everywhere else I 
> use either a Roku, Roku TV, and stream via Plex.
>
> Some channels work find but others have issues with audio sync. It 
> seems like the video freezes right at the beginning but the audio does 
> not so it stays out of sync.
>
> I've played around, especially on Plex and forcing it to transcode on 
> the fly usually works but reduced video quality and the audio is 
> changed from multi-channel to stereo so it's not an ideal solution.
>
> I noticed that recordings I've saved to videos via Avidemux to MKV 
> container (video and audio are copied) don't have this problem so I 
> was thinking of using mkvmerge in a transcode user job to move all my 
> recordings from TS to MKV container formats.
>
> I plan to write a bash script around this but how do I go about 
> updating the name of the recording in the database? Mythutil seems an 
> obvious candidate to have this functionality but it doesn't as far as 
> I can tell.
>
> Ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Richard
>
>

Here is a script that runs as a user job to convert the files to mkv 
format without transcoding, which works better with kodi and maybe with 
other players. It does not change the file name, that was not necessary 
for kodi to recognize that it is an mkv file.

https://github.com/bennettpeter/mythscripts/blob/master/install/opt/mythtv/bin/userjob_mkv.sh


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