<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On 16-Sep-08, at 5:00 AM, <a href="mailto:kanetse@gmail.com">kanetse</a> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="font-family: 'DejaVu Sans'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div>On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 6:50 PM, Joann Bessler <<a href="mailto:bessler@dccnet.com">bessler@dccnet.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I sympathize. I have been seeing this for months ... only on US<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">network shows recorded over firewire in HD. Some shows are fine, most<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">prime time high-profile offerings are unwatchable. My solution has<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">been to deprecate the recording priority on those channels so that<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">myth prefers to record on a Canadian carrier, or, if necessary, will<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">record all US network shows in SD, which is a shame, really. My<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">husband blames a CRTC conspiracy.<br></blockquote><br>If you don't mind me asking, where are you located and what TV<br>provider are you using? I'm on Shaw Cable in Vancouver.</div></span></blockquote><div><br></div>We're just south of you, using Delta Cable.</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="font-family: 'DejaVu Sans'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; ">If it helps any, I've found that running a quick transcode job seems<br>to fix the problem; but the catch seems to be that I have to wait<br>until the recording is completely recorded before I can run the<br>transcode job - so I can't watch recordings as they're being recorded.<br><br>I've set up a user job with the following command "mythtranscode<br>--mpeg2 --buildindex --allkeys --showprogress --infile <filepath>"<br>which is run after every show is recorded. It only takes 3-4 minutes<br>to run for a one hour HD recording, so its fast.<br></div></span></blockquote></div><br><div>On first blush your mythtranscode command seems to work, though I haven't tested it extensively. Thanks for the suggestion, I'll keep looking into it.</div><div><br></div></body></html>