[mythtv-users] List of recordings by disc drive - Solved - now storage strategies

[Stephen Worthington]

On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 09:45:41 +0100, you wrote:

>Hoi Stephen,
>
>Tuesday, February 10, 2015, 4:23:25 AM, you wrote:
>

>> Transcoding is a lot of work.  When TV here was MPEG2 recordings, I
>> tried doing it.  But you needed to cut the ads out and trim the excess
>> at each end of the recording, and there was no way to automate that so
>> I had to spend time manually editing files.  It was far too time
>> consuming, even if I automated the actual transcoding.  I found it
>> much easier just to add more storage.
>
>Ah, but it's not waisted time, because with the adds gone, watching
>gives so much more quality watching!

Only if you are intending to watch the program many times.  When
playing back a recording, mythfrontend makes it so rapid to skip the
unwanted parts that it really is not worth the effort of marking out
the cuts and doing lossless transcoding just to get rid of them.