[mythtv-users] Transcode script that keeps show in Recordings

[Ian Evans]

On Mon, Jun 5, 2023, 11:03 a.m. James Abernathy <jfabernathy at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Mon, Jun 5, 2023 at 10:07 AM Ian Evans <dheianevans at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Sun, Jun 4, 2023, 1:52 p.m. John Pilkington <johnpilk222 at gmail.com>
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>>> On 04/06/2023 17:44, Ian Evans wrote:
>>> > I'm messing around with a test server right now as I don't current;y
>>> > have access to my old MythTV box. I thought I had put a copy of the
>>> > scripts I used in Google Drive, but apparently I didn't.
>>> >
>>> > The user job script I had would run mythtranscode, honour the cutlet,
>>> if
>>> > anny rebuild the seektable and run with the --mpeg2 option, so even if
>>> > you hadn't created a cutlist, you could save about 20% of the initial
>>> > .ts file.
>>> >
>>> > The one thing it did, was move the tmp file to the current recording
>>> > name and move the original file to a .old. Having the edited file
>>> > accessible through recording was helpful if you suddenly noticed you
>>> > missed a commercial/PBS pledge break, as you could easily re-edit the
>>> file.
>>> >
>>> > Anyone know the name of that script or remember authoring it?
>>> >
>>> > Thanks.
>>> >
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>>> What you describe sounds to me like mythtranscode  --mpeg2  'as is' and
>>> I had thought that that is working now in reasonably current versions,
>>> if you are still getting mpeg2 content.  I'm afraid I haven't used it
>>> recently.
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>>> If I remember correctly, mythtranscode would create a tmp file next to
>> the original. If I recall, the script I would using would rename the
>> original file filename.old and rename the tmp to the original filename. My
>> google and list search has turned up empty. Maybe I need coffee.
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> The script I use is one from the mythtv forum call sendTVtoNAS which uses
> mythutils and Handbrake to take the video clean out the commercials per the
> cur list and transcode the .TS to a .m4v h.264 and put on a NAS or some
> other folder.  It leaves your original alone.
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> https://forum.mythtv.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1261
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> Jim A
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Yes, I have that script too. But the one I had on my old backend left it in
records and updated the database. That way you could easily check from the
frontend if the edit was fine and then do a re-edit if necessary. Then you
could send it off to the Videos with another job.

I'll keep digging. Thanks.

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