<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Michael T. Dean <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mtdean@thirdcontact.com">mtdean@thirdcontact.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
The transcoding app does not support preserving subtitles/captions. See<br>
<a href="http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/231851#231851" target="_blank">http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/231851#231851</a> and the<br>
rest of the thread for a discussion of why/the problems with trying to<br>
allow it.</blockquote></div><br>In that informative thread, user mythtv0368, seemingly speaking as the author of that piece of code, said two years ago that implementing a TS to TS transcoding (able to preserve the subtitles/captions) "has been near the top of [his] list for a while". <br>
<br>If one did a truly lossless operation, eg with cut points only allowed on i-frames and cutlists implemented by dropping anything in red and copying verbatim anything in green, wouldn't this be the simplest and fastest possible "transcoding" code imaginable? Wouldn't it also be very useful for those, like me, who would like to preserve the original broadcast quality and features (teletext included) and just remove the commercials and the "margin minutes" before and after the show? I am somewhat surprised not to see more demand for such a facility.<br>
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