[mythtv-users] Transcoding for best audio

Michael Stucky mike at stucky.us
Sun Jul 7 23:06:43 UTC 2013


On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 6:00 PM, John Pilkington <J.Pilk at tesco.net> wrote:

> On 07/07/13 21:26, Michael Stucky wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 2:52 AM, Brenden Conte <brenden at thecontes.info
>> <mailto:brenden at thecontes.info**>> wrote:
>>
>>     Thank you everyone for your feedback; it has been quite useful!
>>
>
> <snip>

> I used to use the mencoder-based script that I posted earlier as a
> preprocessor to get rid of the problematical extra streams that probably
> still come and go in DVB-T recordings.  I used mythtranscode --mpeg2
> --honorcutlist on the output, usually without problems, with MythArchive
>  with no cutlists and no transcoding then usually able to create a
> full-sized 4.3 GiB DVD image in less than 30 min.  Each stage of the
> process could be checked, but inexplicable failures still happened.
>
> For several years now I've been using ProjectX within scripts to do the
> job instead; currently mythDVBcut.  It's a hands-on process, but I can't
> really see it being anything else. Failures are rare, and rarer than
> before.  There are still niggly inconveniences, but the biggest worry is
> that changes introduced into master, or the underlying tools, will bring
> new problems when a new version of  -fixes makes its appearance. :-)
>
> John
>
> Thank you John for sharing your work and your advice for us all to benefit
from!

Mike
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