<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 6 July 2013 05:35, Rod Roark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rod@sunsetsystems.com" target="_blank">rod@sunsetsystems.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">> That’s probably the smart way but there’s also an arcane feature where you can tell it to do lossless transcoding when fed an mpeg2 file.<br>
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> In mythtv-setup:<br>
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> - head to option 3 recording profiles<br>
> - down to transcoders<br>
> - Autodetect from MPEG2<br>
> - enable the “Lossless Transcoding” option<br>
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</div>I tried that but found that when you play the recording, its reported<br>
length is trashed. For example 14 hours 59 minutes instead of the actual<br>
40 minutes.<br>
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There's an almost identical report here that seems to have been unnoticed:<br>
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<a href="http://www.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2012-September/340539.html" target="_blank">http://www.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2012-September/340539.html</a><br>
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Rod<br>
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<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br>I've found if you rebuild the seek tables with mythcommflag this corrects that issue.<br><br>ie. mythcommflag --rebuild -f 4030_20130701091000.mpg<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>Anthony<br>
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