<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 4, 2020, at 12:14 PM, James Abernathy <<a href="mailto:jfabernathy@gmail.com" class="">jfabernathy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I wanted to test transcoding on v31 on the RPi4 but first I need to better understand how to properly use it on v31 on my production backend which is a Core i7 PC so no performance issues. Source is OTA MPEG2 programs from HDHR.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">1. The concept is to have a recording that is automatically flagged for commercials. </div><div class="">2, Then after the Commflagging is done use Mythfrontend to manually edit the cutlist to be correct for all commercials and save it.<br class=""><div class=""><div style="letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">3. Use the builtin Job Option -> Begin Transcoding -> [Default | Autodetect | High Quality | Medium Quality | Low Quality] I used Autodetect for my test.</div><div style="letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">While this works, the transcoded program is really messed up. What I want is lossless MPEG2 (.ts). I envision a simple copy function where the source is copied to a .tmp file dropping the commercials but no compression. So the file would be smaller and the quality the same. No changing of interlacing.</div><div style="letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I’m not doing this right. So any help would be appreciated.</div><div style="letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Jim A</div><div style="letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""> <br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote>In an effort to get more data, I tried mythtranscode from the command line and was even less successful there. Console log with error below:</div><div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(244, 244, 244); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #34bc26" class="">jim@mythbuntu</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">:</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #5230e1" class="">~</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">$ mythtranscode --infile /mnt/md0/recorded-tv1/11701_20190529020000.ts --mpeg2 --honorcutlist -o /home/jim/Videos</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(244, 244, 244); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">2020-04-04 13:03:44.042146 C mythtranscode version: [v31.0] <a href="http://www.mythtv.org" class="">www.mythtv.org</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(244, 244, 244); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">2020-04-04 13:03:44.042161 C Qt version: compile: 5.9.5, runtime: 5.9.5</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(244, 244, 244); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">2020-04-04 13:03:44.042181 I Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS (x86_64)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(244, 244, 244); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">2020-04-04 13:03:44.042183 N Enabled verbose msgs: general</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(244, 244, 244); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">2020-04-04 13:03:44.042191 N Setting Log Level to LOG_INFO</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(244, 244, 244); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">2020-04-04 13:03:44.052485 I Added logging to the console</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(244, 244, 244); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">2020-04-04 13:03:44.052745 I Setup Interrupt handler</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(244, 244, 244); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">2020-04-04 13:03:44.052756 I Setup Terminated handler</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(244, 244, 244); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">2020-04-04 13:03:44.052764 I Setup Segmentation fault handler</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(244, 244, 244); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">2020-04-04 13:03:44.052776 I Setup Aborted handler</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(244, 244, 244); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">2020-04-04 13:03:44.052784 I Setup Bus error handler</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(244, 244, 244); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">2020-04-04 13:03:44.052792 I Setup Floating point exception handler</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(244, 244, 244); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">2020-04-04 13:03:44.052797 I Setup Illegal instruction handler</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(244, 244, 244); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">2020-04-04 13:03:44.052803 I Setup Real-time signal 0 handler</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(244, 244, 244); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">2020-04-04 13:03:44.052809 I Setup Hangup handler</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(244, 244, 244); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">2020-04-04 13:03:44.052888 N Using runtime prefix = /usr</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(244, 244, 244); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">2020-04-04 13:03:44.052891 N Using configuration directory = /home/jim/.mythtv</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(244, 244, 244); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">2020-04-04 13:03:44.052944 I Assumed character encoding: en_US.UTF-8</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(244, 244, 244); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">2020-04-04 13:03:44.053225 I Empty LocalHostName. This is typical.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(244, 244, 244); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">2020-04-04 13:03:44.053232 I Using a profile name of: 'mythbuntu' (Usually the same as this host's name.)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(244, 244, 244); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">2020-04-04 13:03:44.053276 I Start up testing connections. DB localhost, BE , attempt 0, status dbAwake, Delay: 2000</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(244, 244, 244); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">2020-04-04 13:03:45.066725 N Setting QT default locale to EN_US</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(244, 244, 244); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">2020-04-04 13:03:45.066735 I Current locale EN_US</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(244, 244, 244); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">2020-04-04 13:03:45.066775 N Reading locale defaults from /usr/share/mythtv//locales/en_us.xml</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(244, 244, 244); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">2020-04-04 13:03:45.089848 I PowerDBus: Failed to delay sleep,shutdown: Permission denied</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(244, 244, 244); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">2020-04-04 13:03:45.094465 I PowerDBus: Added UPower.Device '/org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/ups_hiddev0'</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(244, 244, 244); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">2020-04-04 13:03:45.094475 I Power: Unknown power source</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(244, 244, 244); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">2020-04-04 13:03:45.133917 I Power: Supported actions: None</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(244, 244, 244); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">2020-04-04 13:03:45.134728 I Loading en_us translation for module mythfrontend</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(244, 244, 244); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">2020-04-04 13:03:45.136591 N Transcoding from /mnt/md0/recorded-tv1/11701_20190529020000.ts to /home/jim/Videos</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(244, 244, 244); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">2020-04-04 13:03:45.136604 I Honoring the cutlist while transcoding</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(244, 244, 244); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">2020-04-04 13:03:45.139270 I Opening /mnt/md0/recorded-tv1/11701_20190529020000.ts</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(244, 244, 244); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">2020-04-04 13:03:45.145880 I PES packet size mismatch</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(244, 244, 244); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">2020-04-04 13:03:45.145889 I PES packet size mismatch</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(244, 244, 244); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">2020-04-04 13:03:45.145997 I Input #0, mpegts, from '/mnt/md0/recorded-tv1/11701_20190529020000.ts':</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(244, 244, 244); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">2020-04-04 13:03:45.146005 I Duration: 00:59:56.04, start: 40483.382878, bitrate: 12342 kb/s</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(244, 244, 244); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">2020-04-04 13:03:45.146050 I Stream #0:0[0x31]: Video: mpeg2video (Main), yuv420p(tv, top first), 1920x1080 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 29.97 fps, 29.97 tbr, 90k tbn, 59.94 tbc</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(244, 244, 244); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">2020-04-04 13:03:45.146072 I Stream #0:1[0x34](eng): Audio: ac3 (AC-3 / 0x332D4341), 48000 Hz, 5.1(side), fltp, 384 kb/s</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(244, 244, 244); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">2020-04-04 13:03:45.146090 I Stream #0:2[0x35](spa): Audio: ac3 (AC-3 / 0x332D4341), 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp, 192 kb/s (visual impaired)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(244, 244, 244); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">2020-04-04 13:03:45.152022 I #0 PTS:11:14:43.967 Delta: 0.0ms queue: 16</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(244, 244, 244); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">2020-04-04 13:03:45.152037 I #1 PTS:11:14:43.958 Delta: 8.62222ms queue: 2</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(244, 244, 244); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">2020-04-04 13:03:45.152043 I #2 PTS:11:14:43.961 Delta: 5.9ms queue: 6</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(244, 244, 244); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">2020-04-04 13:03:45.152053 N MPEG2fixup::InitReplex(): High Definition input, increasing replex buffers</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(244, 244, 244); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">2020-04-04 13:03:45.191697 I Mux rate: 24.98 Mbit/s</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(244, 244, 244); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">2020-04-04 13:04:02.585378 I PES packet size mismatch</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(244, 244, 244); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">2020-04-04 13:04:02.585392 I PES packet size mismatch</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(244, 244, 244); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">2020-04-04 13:04:02.596823 I Generating Keyframe Index</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(244, 244, 244); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">2020-04-04 13:04:02.596828 I Opening /home/jim/Videos</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(244, 244, 244); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">2020-04-04 13:04:02.596914 E Couldn't open input file, error #-21</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(244, 244, 244); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">2020-04-04 13:04:02.602942 E Transcoding /mnt/md0/recorded-tv1/11701_20190529020000.ts failed</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(244, 244, 244); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">2020-04-04 13:04:02.602969 I PowerDBus: Closing interfaces</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(244, 244, 244); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">2020-04-04 13:04:02.603547 I Exiting</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(52, 188, 38); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">jim@mythbuntu</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #f4f4f4" class="">:</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #5230e1" class="">~</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #f4f4f4" class="">$ </span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #f4f4f4" class=""><br class=""></span></div></div></body></html>