<div dir="ltr">On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 2:52 AM, Brenden Conte <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brenden@thecontes.info" target="_blank">brenden@thecontes.info</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Thank you everyone for your feedback; it has been quite useful!<div><br></div><div>Specifically about the --audiotrack argument, i was unable to get it to (seemingly) do anything, or find any examples of its usage in the wild. From what i can tell, its looking for a number of the audiotrack to use (either as the primary or only, its not clear). But no matter what i specify for an argument, it always creates the same mpeg.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Any extra info about that argument would be welcome.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>-B</div></font></span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
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<div> </div><div><br></div><div>The --audiotrack argument appears to be part of the --fifodir mode of mythtranscode. I too was unable to get it to do anything useful in any other context. The --fifodir mode looks interesting because it outputs one audio and one video track each to a pipe that can be used by ffmpeg (and maybe other programs?) as input, it will --honorcutlist and cleanup damaged frames. So it could be used as a replacement for Projectx in John's MythDVBcut script except that the video is output in "rawvideo" format so it must be encoded/compressed into a usable format (xvid, x264, etc.). On my BE with an Intel i7 quad core processor a 1 hour recording took about 3 hours to transcode!! This would only be of value for something that I knew I wanted to keep and wanted to take advantage of mythtranscode's frame accurate cutting.</div>
<div><br></div><div>All of this is somewhat frustrating! Mythtranscode should be the best option because it is built into MythTV but it messes with the order of audio tracks making it troublesome to use with external players with no option that I can find to remove unwanted audio tracks without re-encoding the recordings. MythDVBcut does its cutting and repair at keyframes so recordings with lots of damaged frames can be somewhat choppy but it is fast and reliable for "clean" recordings and allows me to select audio tracks without re-encoding.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Mike</div></div></div></div>