[mythtv-users] Alternatives to lossless transcode

mark perkins1724 at hotmail.com
Mon Nov 11 05:38:45 UTC 2013


On 06/11/13 20:04, Paul Gardiner wrote:
> mark <perkins1724 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> hate to say it but I've had a failure now (lossless mythtranscode to
>> remove commercials then post-process with Handbrake).
> I'm not suggesting that lossless transcode shouldn't be fixed, but since you are post processing with handbrake your purpose in using it is to avoid two lossy steps, so why not just do it in one step by using mythtranscode in --fifodir mode, running the result into ffmpeg. I've been getting perfect results that way for some time now. I attached a script to the mythtranscode wiki page.
> _______________________________________________
Thanks Paul, but I am keen to remove the commercials as well. Partly 
because of storage constraints but partly to not have to skip them 
whenever I watch things again later. My reading of the wiki was that 
--fifodir does not remove the commercials and just outputs the raw streams.


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