[mythtv-users] Lossles Cut marking recordings as "Transcoded"

[Stuart Auchterlonie]

On 23/03/16 03:10, Anthony Giggins wrote:
> This hasn't been a problem until recently but due to h.264 channels
> being pushed out in AU, I can no longer use the inbuilt mythtv
> transcoding for this recordings, I've
> found https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Lossless_Cut which works but does not
> mark these recordings as "Transcoded" in the database, while I can
> manually mark these are recorded in the database I'd rather use a
> approved method (API or utility) is there any current API function or
> util that can do this?
> 
> or even better has the inbuilt transcoder been updated (perhaps in
> master) to handling h.264?
> 

Unfortunately not. It's on the todo list, but nobody has yet implemented
lossless transcoding for h264 recordings :(

I'd love to see it to, having far to many childrens shows in HD with
extra data i can't remove at this time


Regards
Stuart Auchterlonie
MythTV Developer