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

[Steve Adeff]

On Friday 06 January 2006 07:23, Adam Egger wrote:
> 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

I still can't get Myth to do it properly, but I used your CL and it looked to 
complete, I reran mythcommflag --rebuild on the new file and it doesn't seem 
to like to be played back, the screen is all white and it just sits there. If 
I try and play it back in mplayer it looks like the first few frames are all 
screwed up and that the cut occured in the wrong place....

-- 
Steve