[mythtv-users] anyone h.264 transcoding? want to share your magic?

[Eric Sharkey]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 9:19 AM, Brian J. Murrell <brian at interlinx.bc.ca> wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-02-16 at 01:57 +0000, Daniel Frey wrote:
>> It seems mythtv and mkv's have problems.
>
> It does sure seem that way.  :-(
>
>> I cannot get mythtranscode to
>> produce a playable hls stream from a bluray rip made with makemkv.
>
> And all of this trouble with mkvs makes it difficult to pre-transcode
> recordings as a workaround for real-time transcoding for HLS on machines
> to anemic to do a live transcode.

Why do you want to go to mkv?  I use ffmpeg to go to regular mpeg
files and don't have any problems.

Eric