[mythtv-users] Transcoding help please?

[mythtv .]

> And I have noticed from following this list for a couple of months that a
> good number of the most active users and maybe all of the 'devs' are of
> a similar mind, ie. they don't transcode at all. That probably works well
> if all of your media players are MythTV BE/FEs or plugins to things like
> XBMC that honor Myth cutlists. However, for those of us with a
> wider variety of media players/devices and/or storage constraints it is
> nice to be able to remove pre/post padding and commercials. Prior to MythTV
> version 0.26 that meant using MythTranscode to do "lossless" trancoding of
> recordings, which worked very well (as least for me). "Lossless" transcode
> seems to be broken in 0.26 and apparently no fix is planned unless someone
> outside of the existing developer community with the expertise and desire
> to diagnose and fix the problem steps forward. As a result, those of us who
> want/need to transcode (read lossless cut) and lack the expertise to fix
> MythTranscode are left to use the good number of scripts that are available
> that accomplish basically the same thing.
>
> I delete a good number of shows once I have watched them, but I save a
> growing list of movies and music programs that I might like to watch again
> or someone else in the family might like to watch. The scripts I am using,
> slightly modified versions of John Pilkington's MythDVBcut and Raymond
> Wagner's mythvidexport (both available at the MythTV Wiki), allow me to
> save programs I might want to watch again in a format that saves some space
> and can be played by any player/device that I currently use.
>
> Mike
>

Thanks Mike,

That does fit with my impressions. I am using 0.26. Because I use xbmc for
films/music separately and use Mythtv for the tv side of stuff it does
sound like I should just accept that the few bits I am keeping take up a
bit more space and just use the cutlist. It certainly seems the easiest
option!

Martin
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