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

[Scott Harris]

>Currently the "Lossless Cut" set of utilities are available as an Alpha 
>release. The intent is to have MythTV users qualify their recorded videos 
>to determine the script's compatibility with a wide variety of recording 
>devices.
-- snip --

Doug,

One thing I discovered today is Lossless Cut breaks mythweb's direct 
download links and streaming ability.  If you navigate to the recordings 
screen in mythweb and click on the direct download link for a recording that 
has been "lossless cut" you'll get an error about an unknown file type.  You 
also can't stream it.  I found this 
http://www.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2009-December/273971.html which 
contains the solution....

"To allow for mkv (and others) to be directly downloaded, edit
/usr/share/mythtv/mythweb/modules/stream/stream_raw.pl and add the
filetype under "# File Type" (line 26).

For example, mkv files can be added under the .nuv section with the 
following:

elsif ($basename =~ /\.mkv$/) {
         $type   = 'video/x-matroska';
         $suffix = '.mkv';
     }
"

Might be worth adding to the wiki.  Or having mythweb updated.