[mythtv-users] Lossless Transcode 0.25

[Scott & Nicole Harris]

>>Is it just me, or is the lossless transcode in 0.25 RIDICULOUSLY fast?  I 
>>queued up 3 transcodes and by the time I finished editing another cutlist 
>>for transcode (and I’m pretty quick at blowing through a >>cutlist), all 3 
>>were done.  In fact, they were done so fast that my immediate thought was 
>>“Oh #!$%$# that can’t be right, I just lost my recordings”.


>>From 7:45 to 7:55, my mast backend blew through 5 transcodes (3 – 1hr 
>>shows and 2 – 1/2 hr shows), doing them 2 at a time on a Core 2 Duo.

>Of course it's ridiculously fast! It doesn't do much of anything.  Aside 
>from re-encoding up to a few dozen frames for each cutpoint, all you've got 
>is some very minor container reprocessing, and a file copy.  >Out of an 
>hour recording, you're looking at a few seconds worth of video that needs 
>processing.

I don't recall it being that fast previously.  In fact, it's why I decided 
to use the frontend in our gym as a SBE to offload transcode jobs to because 
they took so long.  They took quite some time on the SBE too.