[mythtv-users] Mythpreviewgen
John Pilkington
J.Pilk at tesco.net
Sun Oct 16 14:45:51 UTC 2011
On 16/10/11 09:02, John Pilkington wrote:
> On subject, but not related to the 'random pauses' aspect:
>
> 1. The previews are sometimes 'blocky' when generated from dvb-t
> recordings of low-bitrate channels, presumably because keyframes are too
> far apart.
>
> 2. When a recording is processed with my 'mythcutprojectx' script
> (which also clears the cutlist and rebuilds the seek table) the preview
> shown isn't changed until I've moved away and back in the 'Watch
> Recordings' screen. If this doesn't happen fairly soon no preview is
> shown for that recording, perhaps until a backend restart. I haven't
> looked to see what happens with a 'normal' mythtranscode.
> Should I add a call to mythpreviewgen to my script, and if so what
> parameters would it need?
>
> TIA,
>
> John P
>
To answer my own question: it seems fine with --chanid --starttime
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