[mythtv-users] Alternatives to lossless transcode

John Finlay finlay at moeraki.com
Tue Nov 5 04:32:11 UTC 2013


On 11/4/2013 7:05 PM, Michael Stucky wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 7:15 PM, mark <perkins1724 at hotmail.com 
> <mailto:perkins1724 at hotmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 02/11/13 02:31, John Finlay wrote:
>
>         On 9/29/2013 5:21 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>
>             On 09/29/2013 04:33 PM, John Finlay wrote:
>
>                 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.
>
>
>             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...
>
>         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.
>
>         John
>
>
>     John, thank you greatly for your efforts they are much
>     appreciated. I have applied the patch however have only tested on
>     three files. All three worked successfully so very promising so
>     far. Will continue to test as much as I can over the next week.
>
>
> Ditto, thanks John! I applied the patch last Friday and have tested 
> with multiple recordings including SD and HD (both 720p and 1080I), 
> all worked successfully.
>
You're both welcome. Thanks for testing out this proposed fix. Of 
course, I use lossless transcoding followed by post-processing all the 
time so I really needed a fix for it myself. I hope the devs can review 
the fix soon and provide an official patch.

John
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