[mythtv-users] .25 mythtranscode copy over in .26 failing after upgrade

[Michael T. Dean]

On 03/15/2013 10:50 AM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Ian Evans wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 1:33 PM, Neil Salstrom wrote:
>>> I would love to see both.  With some shows I'd like an unadulterated
>>> file with simply the commercials cut but with some programs (the
>>> Curious George episodes piling up?) have it lossless cut then
>>> handbrake would be great.
>> That's what my Handbrake user job does (or I guess "did", at this
>> point in time). Ran Mythtranscode to cut the commercials then
>> Handbrake to shrink the SD content.
> Does anybody know offhand what kinds of video the mythtv player will
> accept?  I know in the past it was VERY fussy about video format, so
> it was very difficult to transcode anything into a format MythTV would
> accept without using mythtranscode.
>
> Looking at the various handbrake scripts out there they seem to mainly
> just dump the files in some directory, likely to be played by xbmc or
> mythvideo, and they don't actually replace the original file, reindex,
> and update the database.  I want a solution that integrates with the
> regular recording list (so that I can use commercial skip, etc - I
> want to watch the shows after they are transcoded so I can't just
> assume the cutlist is right and strip them).
>
> I can just experiment I suppose but if anybody has a command line for
> handbrake that generates a myth-acceptable video I can use that as a
> starting point.  I'm hoping the fact that the internal player is used
> by mythvideo means that it is more flexible now.

FWIW, the current design says that anything in Watch Recordings is 
"temporary holding space" for new recordings, kept short term until 
you've watched and deleted them or until you've decided to archive them.

If you decide to archive them, they become "user-managed" video, at 
which point, they should be moved to Video Library, where you can a) 
give them useful file names that will make them identifiable even in the 
event of losing your MythTV library, b) allow you to organize them as 
desired (i.e. TV/Sci-Fi/Continuum/Season 1/Continuum s01e01 A Stitch in 
Time.mpg or Kids/TV/SpongeBob SquarePants/Season 9/SpongeBob SquarePants 
s09e6 Bumper to Bumper.mpg or whatever--using hierarchical organization 
to make them easier to manage as well as easier to find in the UI), c) 
take advantage of the much-better-for-large-video-collections user 
interface in Video Library, which allows applying multiple filters and 
browsing in your hierarchical organization and ..., d) take advantage of 
the better metadata support--complete with the ability to update nearly 
all of the metadata, ...

So, I'd recommend you just transcode it using handbrake and let it dump 
the transcode into the Video Library directory structure.  And the Video 
Library supports cut lists, too, as long as you use the Internal player 
(which is the preferred player, anyway).  And, finally, I don't think 
the player was ever as fussy as you remember it being--it was likely 
other configuration/settings making it seem that way.

See, also:

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/519758#519758
and
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/519996#519996

Mike