[mythtv-users] Alternatives to lossless transcode

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Sat Nov 2 15:24:04 UTC 2013


On 11/2/2013 7:59 AM, Anthony Giggins wrote:
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> On 2 November 2013 02:01, John Finlay <finlay at moeraki.com 
> <mailto:finlay at moeraki.com>> wrote:
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>     On 9/29/2013 5:21 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
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>         On 09/29/2013 04:33 PM, John Finlay wrote:
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>             I'm beginning to think that mythtranscode has been
>             intentionally changed to still work with mythtv but to
>             make post-processing of the losslessly transcoded file
>             impossible. Even mythffmpeg can't process the cut files.
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>         No, we had no intention of adding DRM/"lock in" to MythTV.
>          Just a bug that someone needs to figure out.  If someone can
>         figure out what MythTV is breaking (and, ideally, how to fix
>         MythTV to not break it), we'll put that patch in...
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>     For anyone who has had a problem with 0.26 and 0.27 lossles mpeg2
>     mythtranscode I think I figured out the problem and added a patch
>     to http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/11213 that should fix the
>     problem.
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>     John
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> Thanks John,
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> When this gets merged can someone please advise which version it's in?
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> Cheers,
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> Anthony
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I will be very thankful to have transcoding working again.  However will 
this be a valid long term fix?  It looks like avcodec_encode_video is 
deprecated and replaced by avcodec_encode_video2.   Does more 
investigation have to be done into how to incorporate 
avcodec_encode_video2 correctly?

John
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