[mythtv-users] Announcement: Looking for Alpha testers for a generic Lossless cut solution

[John]

Doug,

First of all, excellent work. Particularly impressed with the wiki and 
the announcement. Loads of features get added to myth that I never use.  
" manual ?, who needs a manual when you have the source code ..." :-).
  I record HD on DVB-S2 from Uk and NL, so have a number of things I 
wanted to lossless trim.

Observations/Questions.

I have a number of film4 (UK) films DVB, SD MPEG. And found that there 
were 3 problems. I couldn't quite piece together from the thread if they 
are all expected behavior.

1) Where any previous work is done with mythtranscode, lossless or 
otherwise, the frame rate and other parameters are lost from the 
recordedmarkup table, and lossless_cut now explicitly gracefully fails 
on any of those recordings. Was there an assumption any previous 
trans-code would break things, or is it a bug in mythtranscode ?

2) Some of the films successfully transcode but the resultant transcode 
has frame errors. Sync is ok, but frames are dropped with picture 
distortion. The originals have 1 Subtitle stream, that are not present 
in the mkv. I was not sure from the thread whether the subtitle issues 
caused script or stream level issues.

3) when using

/usr/bin/lossless_cut -f "%DIR%/%FILE%" -e

, then re-running the job is blocked by the file, there is no renaming 
of the second file with date as in the WIKI.

2012-10-15 16:25:58,770 - CRITICAL -
The MythVideo already exists, aborting script.
MythVideo: Review/Bad Day at Black Rock (None)


Once again thank you for your efforts, very useful. Happy to provide 
more thorough testing if required.

John