[mythtv-users] MPEG2 -> MPEG2 Transcoding

[Christian Husemann]

Steven Adeff wrote:
> On 3/29/06, mikepolniak <mikpolniak at adelphia.net> wrote:
>> On 13:28 Tue 28 Mar     , Mark A. Hoover wrote:
>>>> Kevin,  just curious, after you have used the lossless MPEG2->MPEG2
>>>> transcoding are you then doing anything else to the files that require
>>>> them to be de-multiplexed like burning them to DVD?
>>> Paul,
>>>
>>> Are you trying to say DVD burning the resulting stream might be a problem?
>>> I do have one recording that I haven't stripped yet that I'm planning to
>>> burn to DVD.
>> I have used the lossless MPEG2 transcoding with nuvexport. nuvexport
>> runs mythtranscode with honor cutlist and ffmpeg to create the DVD compliant
>> file for burning. Some of these burned DVD's had bad audio-video sync.
>>
>> So i tried ProjectX instead of nuvexport and ProjectX seems to keep the
>> a-v sync. But then some of the lossless MPEG2 files that ran thru  ProjectX
>> produced truncated audio files (which some claim is due to noisey
>> signal). Although i think in my case it has something to do with the
>> cutting of commercials.
> 
> When you ran it through ProjectX, what was your output format? I've
> used it more than the internal cutter and haven't noticed the problem
> you ran into. I output to m2p, but I've been told by one of the
> developers that some of the other output modes are still buggy.
> 
> Now I need to figure out a good process to use Geoffrey's work outside
> of Myth, I basically need a nice graphical way to create the cut list
> outside of MythTV...
> 
> --
> Steve
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What do you mean by "nice graphical"? What about feeding

mythcommflag   -f ${file} --getcutlist

to projectX with "use Frame number for cuts" as cutoption. In that case you can use the GUI from 
mythfrontend and cut it with ProjectX

Works for me like a charm

Cheers

	Christian