[mythtv-users] Mythtranscode and H264?

[Karl Dietz]

On 01.05.2013 07:38, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 05/01/2013 01:18 AM, Alexander Puchmayr wrote:
>> Am Dienstag, 30. April 2013, 14:43:02 schrieb Raymond Wagner:
>>>> From: Alexander Puchmayr
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 2:17 PM
>>>>
>>>> Mythtranscode (I'm using 0.25) seems to have trouble with H264, when
>>>> trying to convert a mpeg-ts with h264 (as received from my cable tv
>>>> provider), it failes with
>>>>
>>>> transcode.cpp:1326 (TranscodeFile) - Unknown video codec: H.264
>>>>
>>>> Is there a way to transcode material with h264?
>>>> Is it supported in 0.26?
>>> It _should_ work, but there is really no reason to want to do this.
>>> Anything MythTranscode has the ability to transcode into will be
>>> larger and
>>> lower quality than what you already have.
>>>
>> Removing commercials is reason enough for me to want that ...
>
> But since there's no lossless cutting capability for H.264 and since
> mythtranscode only transcodes to garbage formats, using mythtranscode on
> H.264 is a bad thing. You'll want to find some other tool that's
> designed to work with H.264.
>
> IMHO, the /only/ use for mythtranscode is lossless cutting of MPEG-2. If
> you're doing anything else, it's not the tool for you.

Maybe you can use one of the user job scripts from the wiki, like
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Lossless_Cut

Regards,
Karl