[mythtv-users] Mytharchive errors

[A JM]

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Rod Smith <mythtv at rodsbooks.com> wrote:

> On Wednesday 17 December 2008 11:03:31 am Harry Devine wrote:
> >
> > Duh!  I should've known! :-)  OK, I found that if I set the Audio Sync
> > value to -20ms, it matches pretty well.  So I ran your transcode script
> > and chose -0.02 as the audio delay.
>
> You overlooked something I told you: MythTV and mencoder (and hence my
> transcode script) use opposite meanings of the audio sync adjustment, so if
> you need -20ms in MythTV, you need *positive* 0.02s in mencoder. As a side
> comment, if you can really spot a 20ms audio-sync error, then you've got
> incredibly sensitive perception of such things. It takes about 60ms for me
> to
> notice the effect. A single video frame is about 33ms.
>
> > I haven't gotten a chance to play
> > it yet, but will tonight.  When I do, and it looks good, how do I go
> > about getting Mytharchive to use it?  I know that I can  rename it to
> > have the nuv extension, but since Mytharchive wants to transcode it, and
> > the file is already transcoded, will that mess anything up?
>
> Tell MythArchive NOT to transcode the file. There are two relevant options:
>
> 1) In the MythArchive setup menus, there's an option called "always
> transcode
>   recordings" (or something similar to that). Be sure that option is NOT
>   enabled -- if it's enabled, MythArchive will always transcode recordings,
>   even if the file is already DVD-ready.
>
> 2) When you select the recording to burn to DVD, tell MythArchive not to
>   transcode it, rather than set an "SP," "LP," or other "quality" setting.
>   The "don't transcode" option (or whatever it's called) won't be present
>   if the file is in a non-DVD-compatible format, but my script only
> provides
>   options for DVD-compatible formats, so a file transcoded with my script
>   should be OK (with the caveat I mentioned several messages back about the
>   Linux tools sometimes flaking out and producing short recordings). If you
>   can't seem to select a "don't transcode" option, then check point #1.
>
> I'm pretty sure that MythArchive won't care about the filename extension;
> it
> checks the file's contents to see if it's in a DVD-ready format.
>
> --
> Rod Smith
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Rod, is there a place to set a default when transcoding recordings? I notice
it always wants to transcode them to SP can it be set to *not* transcode by
default?

Thanks,
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