[mythtv-users] Mythtranscode TRASHES file to 123KB when re-encoding with cut list

[Jeffrey J. Kosowsky]

Brent Meyer wrote at about 14:55:48 -0700 on Monday, May 23, 2011:
 > On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 2:14 PM, John Pilkington <J.Pilk at tesco.net> wrote:
 > > On 23/05/11 21:13, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
 > >
 > >> 2011-05-23 15:46:54.524 Reencoding video in 'raw' mode
 > >> 2011-05-23 15:46:54.791 Copying Audio while transcoding Video
 > >> 2011-05-23 15:46:54.957 Transcoding /mnt/media/mythtv/mythtv-raw/1021_20101120163000.nuv done
 > >
 > > Whatever it's doing, isn't it doing it rather quickly?

Yes it appears to stop before little if any actual transcoding has
occurred.


 > When I first started transcoding my recordings, I experienced the same
 > symptoms a couple of times. It turns out that I had created some
 > "open" cuts (that is, I had an starting cutpoint without an ending
 > cutpoint) at the end of the program.
 > 
 > How did I do that? While manually creating a cutlist, I reached the
 > very end of the show, inserted a starting cutpoint, saw that the rest
 > of the timeline was red (ie, cut), and figured I was fine. When I got
 > around to transcoding that file, however, the "transcode" took only a
 > few seconds and left me with a ~150KB file.

Well, I repeated it to make sure that it wasn't just a "dumb" cutlist
mistake and had the same results. Also the "red" (cut) and "green"
(save) sections appeared to look normal with only about 5-10% of the
program being cut.

Also, I tried using the automatic list generated by commercial
detection and had the same problem.

So, it doesn't seem to be a user error case here...