[mythtv-users] Helpful feedback

[John Pilkington]

On 14/04/18 03:37, James Linder wrote:
> G’day all
> 
> I’ve been struggling with the local (Australian ABC) HD H264 recordinggs. mythtranscode chokes and all my (undoubtably naive and silly) fiddling with ffmpeg trying to cut commercials fails (ie bitrate is so slow the picture is blocky) (ABC is a non-commercial channel but they sure pack in a lot of Next, Forthcomming, and what's on iView their streaming service)
> 
> I’ve found Shotcut works well (well flawlessly) just a bit slow. The deinterlacer and interpolator are really good.
> 
> James

I've just updated mythTScut.sh at the foot of this page:

https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythDVBcut

You might like to try it.  Cuts aren't yet perfect but the transients 
are usually short-lived.  Video and one audio stream only, two pass, 
fast.  Desktop interface.

John