[mythtv-users] Alternatives to lossless transcode

John Finlay finlay at moeraki.com
Wed Nov 6 19:53:47 UTC 2013


On 11/5/2013 1:15 PM, Karl Dietz wrote:
> On 05.11.2013 12:43, Anthony Giggins wrote:
>> On 5 November 2013 15:08, Ian Evans <dheianevans at gmail.com
>>     On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 11:32 PM, John Finlay <finlay at moeraki.com
>>         [snip]
>>
>>         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.
>>
>>
>>     As someone who uses lossless transcoding all the time for the stuff
>>     I keep. Thanks!
>>
> > Until this does get merged is anyone able to provide a mythtranscode
> > binary for 0.27 (mythbuntu 12.04.1 x86_64, I'm not currently setup to
> > build my own :(
>
> Btw, that's a good example of something "people without coding skills"
> can contribute to the community.
>
> Setup yourself to be able to compile according to recipe 2 here
> http://www.mythbuntu.org/development/recipes
>
> and to upload to a PPA at Launchpad.
> https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PPA
>
> It does take some time to do the initial setup (give yourself a day or
> so) setting up another PPA or updating the first takes considerably
> less time. The most time will likely go into identifying patches that
> work well as fixes PPA, communicating the PPA, collecting relevant test
> results to the tickets.
>
> Regards,
> Karl
>
Jean-Yves Avenard has committed the fix (workaround) so it should be 
appearing in the mythbuntu repos soon.

John



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