[mythtv-users] transcoding script for your consideration

[Rob Snow]

You might take a look at mythencode.pl in contrib.

On 27 May 2003 22:40:13 -0400, Owen Williams wrote
> There's a lot of work to make mythtv automatically transcode files, but
> these aren't finished and normally convert to .nuv, which is a 
> useless format for most purposes.
> 
> So, I wrote a script that prompts a user for input and backs up files
> from the recorded database.  The script even checks input for 
> validity. It must be run by a user with permission to play with mysql.
> 
> The script prompts for a choice of title, then subtitle, then video
> bitrate.  The audio is copied as is, since most people probably have
> their audio in mp3 format anyway.  If you have raw audio, you can tweak
> the script yourself.
> 
> I use mencoder for transcoding.
> 
> I am poorly selftaught with regards to bash scripting, so please submit
> better versions.
> 
> owen