[mythtv-users] Auto-transcode to x264 and update MythTV database along the way

[Jeremy Jones]

On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Robert Waldner <waldner at waldner.priv.at>wrote:

>
> On Fri, 09 Dec 2011 09:35:10 CST, Jeremy Jones writes:
> >> Thanks for the pointers - right now I'm trying to figure out how to get
> >>  the commercial-detection information out of the DB, so I can then use
> >>  that to make chapter markers in MKV.
>
> > Not sure how to do this, but I do recall someone telling me that the
> > markers are based on frames.  If your transcoding operation changes the
> > frame count then you will need to run the commercial flag after
> > transcoding. If you need help extracting that information and do not find
> > it by google search then I would start a new thread on that subject.
>
> I can cope fine with either frame-number or time-index, though
>  frame-number of course will be more exact.
>
> I think it's going to be just finding a whole uninterrupted hour of
>  staring at an strace of mythcommflag and the DB.
>
> >> (I am not watching the recordings via Myth, as that machine is nowhere
> >>  near my nice&big TV-set; I use a different media player (Xtreamer) for
>
> >Are you using the myth UpnP or another DLNA server or just an SMB share?
>  I
> >assumed the SMB share, hence the need for the "Pretty" folder/File naming.
>
> NFS instead of SMB, because no Windos anywhere, but yes otherwise.
>
> DLNA, now that I've read the overview on Wikipedia, sounds interesting,
>  though - I always thought it was just a different name for UPnP, and
>  that that was purely for clients requesting port-forwards on NAT
>  gateways. I'll have to read up on that, because it sounds as though it
>  might solve a whole bunch of other problems.
>  Thanks for pointing this out to me!
>

FWIW I'm using a network connected Blu Ray Disc player as one of my
frontends.  It does not recognize Myth's Upnp server, so I am instead
serving up media to it using miniDLNA.  I have mythlink setup to throw
symlinks into a seperate directory and then share that directory through
miniDLNA.


> cheers,
> &rw
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