[mythtv-users] mythtranscode questions

[George Bingham]

Hey all,

Just trying out some transcoding to save a few tv-shows into my "videos"
directories after having cut the commercials and I have a few questions
about mythtransode.

I am running V 28.0-26-gf58b100 on mythbuntu 16.04 (only under LXDE).

When mythtranscode runs and succeeds - the original file is deleted -
(based on the logs, I am not sure this is the desired behavior, as it
appears that it attempts to restore the original file, and when it can't it
deletes -- see below)

 2016-05-24 17:21:17.817072 N  Transcode Completed
2016-05-24 17:21:18.229547 N  Transcoding
/var/lib/mythtv/recordings/1051_20160513000000.ts done
2016-05-24 17:21:18.300450 N  Transcode: delete old file: waiting while
program is in use.
2016-05-24 17:21:18.340878 N  Transcode: program is no longer in use.
2016-05-24 17:21:18.644004 E  mythtranscode: Error Renaming
'/var/lib/mythtv/recordings/1051_20160513000000.ts.tmp' to
'/var/lib/mythtv/recordings/1051_20160513000000.ts'
                        eno: No such file or directory (2)
2016-05-24 17:21:18.680306 N  Requesting delete for file
'myth://Default@compuxeon/1051_20160513000000.ts.old'.
2016-05-24 17:21:18.711952 I  MythCoreContext::ConnectCommandSocket():
Connecting to backend server: 192.168.20.100:6543 (try 1 of 1)
2016-05-24 17:21:18.950040 I  MythCoreContext::CheckProtoVersion(): Using
protocol version 88 XmasGift
2016-05-24 17:21:19.649089 N  Requesting delete for file
'myth://Default@compuxeon/1051_20160513000000.ts.-1.100x56.png'.
2016-05-24 17:21:19.733681 N  Requesting delete for file
'myth://Default@compuxeon/1051_20160513000000.ts.png'.
2016-05-24 17:21:19.910715 I  Waiting for threads to exit.


Anyway, I was wondering if there was a switch to tell mythtranscode to NOT
delete the original file?

After testing this out on several shows, I am noticing that there is a
growing number of expiring shows where the original file has been deleted,
so expiring them fails because the show had already been deleted by
mythtranscode.

Every time the backend checks for expired programs, there is a longer list
of .ts files that it cannot locate and it complains that it will not delete
the associated metadata.

Also, has anyone experimented with the "--hls" option?
It appears that if you specify --hls, that you also have to specify all the
other associated options, e.g. audiobitrate, video bitrate, hlsstreamid,
maxsegments, etc. - OR - does it assume appropriate defaults?

If I could get it to not delete the original, I would play around with this
a lot more.

Thanks for any knowledge sharing...


-- George
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