[mythtv-users] Feature Idea - Archive TV Movies

Jeff C tuner at hfx.eastlink.ca
Fri Jul 18 10:41:04 EDT 2003


At 08:33 AM 7/18/2003 -0400, you wrote:

Thanks Mega.  Do you have a sample command line switch list you can share?

-Jeff

>mythmkmovie does this, but it's not integrated into the menu system.
>
>Site for it is..  http://www.icelus.org/
>
>Transcoding is turned on in CVS now, which also does what you want, but 
>does not move them to mythmovie.  And it also can be ran automatically 
>after each show is recorded, but it doesnt support the comercial cutlists 
>(not sure why!?)  It'll convert from mpeg2 to mpeg4 if you desire, I tried 
>it last night, but didnt get any sound from the output, might not have 
>everything setup on mine correctly.
>
>I use mythmkmovie for now, because I want the comercial cutlists removed 
>from the recordings.
>
>L8r mega
>
>
>
>Jeff C wrote:
>>I am really enjoy my MythTV machine and recently had an idea for a 
>>feature I wanted to put forward.
>>I recorded to movies the other day, Four Weddings and a Funeral and The 
>>Mask of Zorro.  I'm running a PVR 250 at an encoding rate that seems to 
>>balance quality and file size reasonably well (~2GB/hour).  However the 
>>two movies represent about 10GB of disk space.  I was thinking how 
>>convenient it would be to be able to select large movies from the 
>>playback list and have them encoded to a lower bit rate file format, and 
>>automatically moved over to the MythVideo directory.  IE Click on it, 
>>select "Transfer to VIdeo Library" and has it encode it in a more 
>>compressed format, remove it from the TV listings, and add it in to the 
>>MythVideo library.
>>As before, I'd love to submit a patch for this, but I'm not a programmer, 
>>just a very satisfied user.
>>Any thoughts on this?
>>-Jeff
>>
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