[mythtv-users] anyone h.264 transcoding? want to share your magic?

[Brian J. Murrell]

On Mon, 2015-02-16 at 10:17 -0500, Peter Bennett (cats22) wrote:
> 
> I think I may know what the problem is. The rebuilding of the seek table
> messes up the recording duration in myth tv. I solve it with the
> following code in my transcode script. That figure in recordedmarkup
> gets an incorrect value for the length of the recording and mythtv uses
> it to determine the length.

But why does mythcommflag --rebuild not correct it?

>                     mythcommflag --rebuild  --chanid "$chanid"
> --starttime "$starttime" || echo Return Code is $?
>                     # Fix duration
>                     duration=`mediainfo '--Inform=Video;%Duration%'
> "$storagedir/$realfile"` || echo Return Code is $?
>                     if [[ "$duration" == "" ]] ; then
>                         echo "Error no duration found for $file"
>                     else
>                         echo "update recordedmarkup set data =
> '$duration' " \
>                             "where chanid = '$chanid' and starttime =
> '$starttime' and type = '33' and mark = '0';" | \
>                         $mysqlcmd
>                     fi

Strange.  My .mkv files (transcoded with handbrake-cli) don't seem to
have a duration as reported by mediainfo '--Inform=Video;%Duration%'.

b.

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