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

[Dan Wilga]

On 2/16/15 10:44 AM, Doug Lytle wrote:
>>>> On 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.
> I have absolutely no issues with .mkv containers on Myth .27.4.   Granted, my use pattern for .mkvs are my video library only.
>
I have no problems, either, and I use them in Recordings. The important 
bit seems to be simply deleting all rows from recordedmarkup that refer 
to the recording. Newer versions of Myth don't need them for proper 
pause/skip/FF.