[mythtv-users] Compiling 0.25-fixes mythtranscode against 0.26 library's is it possible?

[John Pilkington]

On 04/07/13 00:20, Michael Stucky wrote:

>
>     OK, thanks for that.  I have a first shot at a switchable script and
>     my first .mkv file.  It plays in the frontend but I can't step or
>     use the editor on it.  I think I saw something recently about that,
>     but it's bedtime now.  I suppose MythArchive will choke on it, too.
>
>     Running:  mythffmpeg -i 1002_20130703195800.mkv 2>&1 | grep -C 4 Video
>
>     Input #0, matroska,webm, from '1002_20130703195800.mkv':
>        Metadata:
>          ENCODER         : Lavf54.6.101
>        Duration: 00:59:11.60, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 3008 kb/s
>          Stream #0:0: Video: mpeg2video (Main), yuv420p, 720x576 [SAR
>     64:45 DAR 16:9], 8153 kb/s, 25 fps, 25 tbr, 1k tbn, 50 tbc (default)
>          Stream #0:1: Audio: mp2, 48000 Hz, stereo, s16, 256 kb/s (default)
>
>     At least one output file must be specified
>
>     John
>
>
>
> I should have mentioned above, once the file is in an MKV container it
> is no longer in a format that MythTV considers a "recording". In other
> words, it is not editable or seekable as a recording. You need to use
> "mythexport" or some other script like that to move it to your MythTV
> Video library where you can play, fastforward, rewind, etc. as you would
> any imported video.
>
> Mike
>

Thanks for that, too.

I've posted the new version,  mythDVBcut_20130704.sh, above the old one 
here, and added a small covering note.  I hope it's useful.

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythDVBcut

The other part of the package, pycut_20130305.py, for use with eg h264 
recordings, is unchanged at the bottom of the page.

John