[mythtv-users] MythTV commercial removal

Rod Roark rod at sunsetsystems.com
Fri Jul 5 19:35:43 UTC 2013


> That’s probably the smart way but there’s also an arcane feature where you can tell it to do lossless transcoding when fed an mpeg2 file.
>
> In mythtv-setup:
>
> - head to option 3 recording profiles
> - down to transcoders
> - Autodetect from MPEG2
> - enable the “Lossless Transcoding” option

I tried that but found that when you play the recording, its reported
length is trashed. For example 14 hours 59 minutes instead of the actual
40 minutes.

There's an almost identical report here that seems to have been unnoticed:

http://www.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2012-September/340539.html

Rod


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