[mythtv-users] Transcoding HD-PVR Recordings

Kirk Bocek t004 at kbocek.com
Mon Sep 20 18:55:30 UTC 2010



On 9/20/2010 11:48 AM, John Welch wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> With the Fall TV season kicking in, and due to some changes with my
> cable company since last season, I've been starting to use my HD-PVR
> more often.  I'm looking for some suggestions on ways to transcode
> these HD-PVR recordings both for playback on less powerful / non-VDPAU
> systems (ie netbook, iPod, etc.) and for disk space saving /
> archiving.  For my other recordings, which are from mostly an HDHR
> with a few from a pcHD3000 as well, I am currently using 'nuvexport'.
> However, this program / script does not seem to work for HD-PVR
> recordings, at least not the version I am using.
> 
> I have been searching around for info both on the MythTV lists and the
> web.  While I have found some info, most of it seems old / outdated
> and/or incomplete.  I did find one script through my searching called
> 'mythnuv2mkv.sh', which I've used a couple of times and it seems to be
> working OK.  However, I'm just wondering what other MythTV users are
> doing.  If I can be so bold to ask that any suggestions include
> details of command-line options, program settings, profiles, etc.
> Ideally I'd like to use something that is freely available and
> MythTV-aware (as in being able to handle cut-lists).
> 
> I am currently running MythTV version 0.23.1 from the ATrpms repo
> under Fedora 13.
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.


Wish I could be of some help, John, but I'm in the same boat as you. Nuvexport
stopped working for me years ago. Every so often I'll hit the lists and see if
I can get it working but it's always been a bust for me. Nuvexport would be
ideal since it can use cutlists generated in the frontend.

The other tact I've looked at is directly downloading (through MythWeb) the
video file generated by my HD-PVR and editing it on my Windows box. I have yet
to find a video editor that can work reliably on *large* h.264 files. I use
Nero Vision on the h.264 files from my home video camera and have looked at
AviDemux. But both choke on the 5-25 GB files I'm creating in Myth.

So here's another voice asking how people are getting their HD-PVR recordings
out onto their laptops or iPods.

Kirk Bocek


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