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<div>And I have noticed from following this list for a couple of months that a good number of the most active users and maybe all of the 'devs' are of a similar mind, ie. they don't transcode at all. That probably works well if all of your media players are MythTV BE/FEs or plugins to things like XBMC that honor Myth cutlists. However, for those of us with a wider variety of media players/devices and/or storage constraints it is nice to be able to remove pre/post padding and commercials. Prior to MythTV version 0.26 that meant using MythTranscode to do "lossless" trancoding of recordings, which worked very well (as least for me). "Lossless" transcode seems to be broken in 0.26 and apparently no fix is planned unless someone outside of the existing developer community with the expertise and desire to diagnose and fix the problem steps forward. As a result, those of us who want/need to transcode (read lossless cut) and lack the expertise to fix MythTranscode are left to use the good number of scripts that are available that accomplish basically the same thing.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I delete a good number of shows once I have watched them, but I save a growing list of movies and music programs that I might like to watch again or someone else in the family might like to watch. The scripts I am using, slightly modified versions of John Pilkington's MythDVBcut and Raymond Wagner's mythvidexport (both available at the MythTV Wiki), allow me to save programs I might want to watch again in a format that saves some space and can be played by any player/device that I currently use.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Mike</div></div></div></div>
</blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra" style>Thanks Mike,</div><div class="gmail_extra" style><br></div><div class="gmail_extra" style>That does fit with my impressions. I am using 0.26. Because I use xbmc for films/music separately and use Mythtv for the tv side of stuff it does sound like I should just accept that the few bits I am keeping take up a bit more space and just use the cutlist. It certainly seems the easiest option!</div>
<div class="gmail_extra" style><br></div><div class="gmail_extra" style>Martin</div></div>