[mythtv-users] How can I run a user job instead of mythtranscode?

[D. R. Newman]

I am not using nuvexport for three reasons:

1. The automatic commercial detection rarely works on broadcasts in the
United Kingdom. It seems that our advertisers make the commercials too
much like the programmes. So I would have to manually go through the
programmes to produce a cutlist: which is far more time than I have,
given that MythTV is recording dozens of shows each day.

2. I don't want to export programmes to a different directory. I want
the recorded programmes to stay in my TV directory, with unchanged
names, so that they are automatically deleted when the partition fills up.

3. I have a separate script I run, calling avidemux, to process
programmes I want to keep, then stick the results in the video
directories. I have avidemux scripts to treat each series differently,
with different cropping margins, different places to remove the logo,
and converting documentaries to editable Xvid, while fiction is
compressed using x264. But the remux script I want to run first does
just that: it remultiplexes Freeview recordings to remove download errors.

On 17/10/10 18:38, Another Sillyname wrote:
> Sorry to ask a silly question but why not use nuvexport?
> 
> It honours the cutlist within myth and is pretty well integrated within myth.
> 
> On 17 October 2010 17:06, D. R. Newman <d.r.newman at e-consultation.org> wrote:
>> I have a perl script that remuxes MPEG2 recordings from my DVB-T card.
>> It runs ProjectX and then mplex to fix errors, sync the file, and
>> sometimes split programmes from adverts (when the aspect ratio changes).
>>
>> As I am running out of user job slots, I would like to run my script in
>> place of mythtranscode. So in MythTV setup I replaced 'mythtranscode'
>> with 'perl /var/myth/temp/projXtranscode.pl'
>>
>> It runs fine from the command line, but fails whenever MythTV tries to
>> schedule it from the job queue. The failure is at the start, a few
>> milliseconds in, long before ProjectX starts up.
>>
>> What do I need to do to get my script to run in the place of
>> mythtranscode? I have, of course, got it to read the arguments passed to
>> mythtranscode.
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