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

jk90090 jk90090 at gmail.com
Wed Feb 18 19:49:14 UTC 2015


On 2/16/15 8:30 AM, Dan Wilga wrote:
> On 2/16/15 10:44 AM, Doug Lytle wrote:
>>>>> On Feb 16, 2015, at 9:19 AM, Brian J. Murrell 
>>>>> brian at interlinx.bc.ca wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, 2015-02-16 at 01:57 +0000, Daniel Frey wrote:
>>>>> It seems mythtv and mkv's have problems.
>>>>> It does sure seem that way.  :-(
>>>> I cannot get mythtranscode to
>>>> produce a playable hls stream from a bluray rip made with makemkv.
>>> And all of this trouble with mkvs makes it difficult to pre-transcode
>>> recordings as a workaround for real-time transcoding for HLS on 
>>> machines
>>> to anemic to do a live transcode.
>> I have absolutely no issues with .mkv containers on Myth .27.4.   
>> Granted, my use pattern for .mkvs are my video library only.
>>
> I have no problems, either, and I use them in Recordings. The 
> important bit seems to be simply deleting all rows from recordedmarkup 
> that refer to the recording. Newer versions of Myth don't need them 
> for proper pause/skip/FF.
I actually do "mythcommflag --chanid "$3" --starttime "$4" --rebuild " 
on my x264 transcoded recordings all the time without issue (after 
updating the mysql table to point to the transcode of course).

-JK


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