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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/16/2013 4:27 PM, Jeremy Jones
wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:CADCRbW0SsnYPmkh9bwAYmhqywgLsBzu3evZDo2Xzo7ZoJidkCQ@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">Hi,
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Frank
Feuerbacher <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:fbacher@brisbin.net" target="_blank">fbacher@brisbin.net</a>></span>
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We want to transcode all of our TCM movies to h.264 using
Handbrake. I found a script for doing that which I will
alter for our needs (I'm not afraid of scripts, but I'm no
Perl expert).<br>
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All of the documentation that I have found so far talk about
transcoding recorded files. But I have a bunch of .ts files
(with mpeg-2 1080i content) that I want to run through
Handbrake. </blockquote>
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Is there a way to tell MTV to do this for me</blockquote>
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<div>You probably can, and someone else will need to respond
with how, but in my (limited) experience the below seems
more straight forward.</div>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0
.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">, or do I
need to use handbrake externally before I import the movies
into MythTV?<br>
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<div>The way I see this is that you are moving the files from
something or somewhere into a mythTV video library folder.
Since they are going to be imported into the database by
scanning, I don't know why you wouldn't do everything with
an external script before even getting mythTV to scan for
new files. </div>
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<div>But, if you don't like my answer someone else will tell
you a different one in a few minutes.</div>
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<div>Jeremy</div>
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I am being lazy. I have a backlog of files created by NextPVR
running on a machine too slow to encode. I am still trimming some of
them. Now that I have my new faster box set up and I am about to
switch between using NextPVR to Myth. So I now have a conundrum: if
I am capturing and encoding movies with mythtv while I still have
some that need to be encoded outside if mythtv I either have to deal
with two Handbrake sessions going on simultaneously on the same box.
Or, I have to write some fancy script to do queuing. The new box can
do about 12 movies/day with the settings I have chosen. My old
machines can do about 2. I think I have ~50 movies in the backlog. I
will also get more if I rip DVDs.<br>
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Perhaps there is not much of a penalty for doing simultaneous
handbrakes on a 4cpu 3.4Ghz 16G machine. I'll do some checking.<br>
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