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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 18/01/2008, <b class="gmail_sendername">Chris Hayes</b> <<a href="mailto:chris@lwcdial.net">chris@lwcdial.net</a>> wrote:</span>
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<div dir="ltr" style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"><br>> Between my desktop, my frontend, and my backend I've got 5<br>> cpus distributed over the home network catching up on the backlog.<br>><br>> That's just too cool...
<br><br><br>Ummm, how?<br><br>I had to transcode two HD shows last night and it took *forever*. I<br>sat there working on my laptop that was doing nothing at all and<br>wondered whether I could use it for any good?<br> </div>
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<div dir="ltr" style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">Indeed, I've been trying a Mythdora VMWare frontend onm my laptop.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">I'm not sure I have the setup right but from what I've seen so far it's just acting as a gui for all the operations on the backend. It's potentially really useful but reality is still for me a confusing battle against issue after issue.
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<div dir="ltr" style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">But things I know you can do... due to the issue with 2nd audio tracks getting blanked on DVBt recordings I've need to <span class="st" id="st" name="st">ffmpeg</span> "lossless" transcode and I've done this from my laptop. If you just get the latest exe (assuming Windows) and learn some
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<div>Chris,</div>
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<div>Re: The mythtranscode "lossless" transcode losing audio tracks... I have a strange workaround....</div>
<div>due to something buggy in the xvmc playback code if you have more than 1 audio track in an MPEG-TS sound stutters when you try to play it back with xvmc.</div>
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<div>So I wrote a hack (search for it on this list) that only records the 1st audio track in a DVB-T signal that it finds. Strictly I know I should look for the correct track somehow e.g. it's the only stereo one etc, but in practice I've not had ANY problems with getting the wrong one.
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<div>This then means that mythtranscode --lossless can't discard the wrong audio as there is only one.</div>
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<div>Just in case you find it useful....</div>
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<div>Cheers</div>
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<div>Steve<br> </div>