[mythtv-users] SVN lossless MPEG2 transcode for HD process question

[Adam Egger]

On 1/5/06, Steve Adeff <adeffs at gmail.com> wrote:
> I tried using this for my first time, and since I've never done transcoding I
> think I may be confused...
>
> First, I don't have any transcode jobs setup, so I ran mythtranscode manually.
> Here's what I did...
>
> Used edit mode to place two cutpoints (I just wanted to save one interview
> segment from a talk show). When I play back the recording it honors the
> cutpoints, so I ran:
> mythtranscode -m -i /MythTV/tv/1807_20060105020500.mpg -l --showprogress
>
> and in the end I got
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 mythtv mythtv 7.2G Jan  5 03:04 1807_20060105020500.mpg
> -rw-r--r--  1 root   root   7.1G Jan  5 11:39 1807_20060105020500.mpg.tmp
>
> so I'm hoping I'm just doing something wrong... but I don't know what...

Yes, you're doing something wrong ;) -i doesn't unfortunately work
with -l this way. You have to provide the cutpoints if you're using -i
and -o.

So you can either use mythtranscode this way:
mythtranscode -l -c 1807 -s 2006-01-05T02:05:00 -o test.mpg <-- Which
accepts the -l flag or just press X while you watch this show. It's
the easiest way to transcode files (don't forget to activate "Keep
backup files" in mythtv-setup).

Adam