[mythtv-users] Handbrake_userjob issues

John Pilkington J.Pilk at tesco.net
Fri Nov 10 11:12:51 UTC 2017


On 10/11/17 10:12, John Pilkington wrote:
> On 10/11/17 07:37, Zach Scholes wrote:
>> Has anyone tried to implement the Handbrake_userjob script? 
>> https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Handbrake_userjob
>>
>> I've been trying to get it to work for several hours, and I have had 
>> to make several adjustments to the script to get as far as I can but I 
>> am getting the error **ERROR: [mplex] Too many frame drops -exiting' 
>> when mplex runs.  I tried setting the -r flag to 12000 and 9000 but 
>> still got the same error.  When I didn't set the -r flag it got INFO: 
>> [mplex] rough-guess multiplexed stream data rate    : 9988296 but 
>> still the same error.
>>
>> Ultimately I'm trying to just get a video file to load in to my plex 
>> library with the commercials cut.  I'm beginning to think it would 
>> have been better to just start from scratch instead of trying this 
>> script. Any thoughts are appreciated.
>>
> 
> There was a report years ago of trouble when mplex was used at high 
> bitrates.  The solution adopted was to output mkv instead of mpeg2.
> 
> Here's a link that might help.  Perhaps click twice
> 
> https://lists.gt.net/mythtv/users/540366#540366
> 
> John P

... but I've just browsed the script.  It appears to be trying to use 
projectx to do the cuts, which TTBOMK needs an mpeg2 recording, then 
remuxing, and then converting to x264 mkv.  Does that fit?  Will 
mythtranscode not do most of what you want?



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