[mythtv-users] Feature Idea - Archive TV Movies

[MegaDeTH]

mythmkmovie is menu driven, pretty easy.   L8r mega

Jeff C wrote:
> 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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