<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jun 5, 2023 at 10:07 AM Ian Evans <<a href="mailto:dheianevans@gmail.com">dheianevans@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jun 4, 2023, 1:52 p.m. John Pilkington <<a href="mailto:johnpilk222@gmail.com" target="_blank">johnpilk222@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 04/06/2023 17:44, Ian Evans wrote:<br>
> I'm messing around with a test server right now as I don't current;y <br>
> have access to my old MythTV box. I thought I had put a copy of the <br>
> scripts I used in Google Drive, but apparently I didn't.<br>
> <br>
> The user job script I had would run mythtranscode, honour the cutlet, if <br>
> anny rebuild the seektable and run with the --mpeg2 option, so even if <br>
> you hadn't created a cutlist, you could save about 20% of the initial <br>
> .ts file.<br>
> <br>
> The one thing it did, was move the tmp file to the current recording <br>
> name and move the original file to a .old. Having the edited file <br>
> accessible through recording was helpful if you suddenly noticed you <br>
> missed a commercial/PBS pledge break, as you could easily re-edit the file.<br>
> <br>
> Anyone know the name of that script or remember authoring it?<br>
> <br>
> Thanks.<br>
> <br>
<br>
What you describe sounds to me like mythtranscode --mpeg2 'as is' and <br>
I had thought that that is working now in reasonably current versions, <br>
if you are still getting mpeg2 content. I'm afraid I haven't used it <br>
recently.<br>
<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto">If I remember correctly, mythtranscode would create a tmp file next to the original. If I recall, the script I would using would rename the original file filename.old and rename the tmp to the original filename. My google and list search has turned up empty. Maybe I need coffee. </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>The script I use is one from the mythtv forum call sendTVtoNAS which uses mythutils and Handbrake to take the video clean out the commercials per the cur list and transcode the .TS to a .m4v h.264 and put on a NAS or some other folder. It leaves your original alone.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://forum.mythtv.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1261">https://forum.mythtv.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1261</a></div><div><br></div><div>Jim A</div><div> </div></div></div>