[mythtv-users] User Job fails.

A. F. Cano afc at shibaya.lonestar.org
Sun Jan 17 02:44:21 UTC 2016


On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 11:27:56AM +0000, John Pilkington wrote:
> On 15/01/16 03:35, Mark Perkins wrote:
> ...
> 
> I've been browsing the wiki for scripts, and it looks to me as if
> 
> https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Copy_and_transcode.pl
> 
> aims to do what you asked for - ie create a second (or more)
> transcoded recording(s), leaving the original in place.  That's
> something I've occasionally wanted to do, as well.  But I haven't
> tried it.  As posted, it uses the 'normal' mythtranscode, not a
> wrapped custom script.
> 
> It's nearly 3 years old, and there might be dragons...  Caveat emptor.

I had come across it in my searches.  I haven't tested it yet because it
looks pretty complex and I was hoping there was an simpler internal way
to do what I'm trying to do.  I'll give it a try if I have the time
before the repaired/replaced Liva gets here.

Thanks for pointing it out.



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