[mythtv] Thoughts on encoder farms / distributed capturing and viewing

[Isaac Richards]

On Wednesday 30 October 2002 06:12 pm, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 03:49:16PM -0500, Isaac Richards wrote:
> > On Wednesday 30 October 2002 10:57 am, Robert Kulagowski wrote:
> > > o  Partial deletes.  I know that you mentioned commercial cutting,
> > > but I'm interested in "delete up to this point".  Say I have a 2 hour
> > > recording, and I've already watched 1 hour of it.  I want to free up
> > > the disk space by deleting the first hour.
> >
> > Once the ability's there to remove segments of the video, this'd be
> > easy.. The hard part's rewriting the file, really.
>
> What's the hard part about rewriting the file?  I must be missing
> something.

There isn't anything, really..  The only thing to do is a little re-encoding 
to guarantee that there's keyframes in the proper spaces.

Isaac