[mythtv-users] Start Early/End Late question

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Mark,

Sunday, April 20, 2014, 4:10:28 AM, you wrote:


>> They're doing 4 good eats episodes (reruns) in a row without commercial breaks between the end of one and the beginning of the other. I'm trying to capture them to convert to h264 so I missing the last 10 seconds of every episode.
>> 
>> Richard 
>> _______________________________________________

> One option would be to:
> - use ffmpeg to extract the first 10sec/60sec/??sec of the subsequent recording
> - use ffmpeg to then tack it onto the end of the prior recording
> - clear the seek table and commskiplist and cutlist
> - rebuild the seek table
> - redo the commskiplist and cutlist

> Not for the faint hearted but achievable. It assumes a negligible
> break between consecutive recordings which I think would be the case
> if all recordings were done on a single tuner. (I've not tried this
> method with MythTV before but have with recordings from a commercial
> PVR a very long time ago IIRC - YMMV)

> I'm assuming that the far far simpler solution of padding with
> multirec or padding with multiple tuners is not a possibility for
> you? Maybe I should have asked that first.

> Another option I have used in the past with MythTV is to record all
> consecutive shows as a single recording, then create a cutlist for
> just the first episode in the block then transcode to a new file
> without deleting the original. Then create a new cutlist for the
> second episode and transcode to new file, repeating for however many
> episodes you have in the block. A bit time consuming but effective
> where hard limited by tuner availability.

Just put them in a playlist when watching!


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