stuart wrote:
>
> Roger Heflin wrote:
>> stuart wrote:
> ...
>>> All interesting ideas, let's focus on the remote control from the
>>> mythtv server (back end). We have been toying with ideas to make
>>> mvpmc a better mythtv client. The most troublesome handicap centers
>>> on the mvpmc inabilities to play back HD videos and any video with AC3
>>> sound.
>>>
>>> There are 2 approaches to get around this.
>>>
>>> We can transcode everything mythtv records to SD video quality and
>>> stereo sound. But there isn't a good way to keep the original HD
>>> recording. And there doesn't appear a way to offer up 2 versions (HD
>>> and SD) of a recording even if we keep both.
>> I would guess with some knowledge of how to add/delete things to
>> the myth server it would be possible to copy and add a separate
>> entry for the hd entry after you have trancoded it, I don't have
>> the knowledge right now of how to easily read out, and add an entry
>> for either the transcoded file or the original file, though it would
>> not seem that hard to create an script/executable that given an
>> original mythtv file created a new entry for a new file with xxx_sd.mpg
>> that slightly modified the title.
>>
>> Right now I just put the converted SD version in place of the HD file and
>> myth picks it up correctly as I don't typically ever watch the HD
>> versions, right now I don't delete the HD files (for a while) in case I
>> need to debug a conversion issue.
>>
>>
>> Roger
>
> Have you looked into this? I am not the person to ask, but I think you
> need to change myth code to change it's behavior w.r.t. saving original
> and transcoded files. I have been wanting to develop mythtv code, but I
> don't want to risk running the SVN version on my mythtv box.
The transcode has to be done via a external job, the default transcode
jobs only do mpeg4 and aren't complicated enough to know what will and
won't work with the mvp, the external script is smart enough to just
transcode the audio if needed. To use the myth transcode options alot
of code to understand the mvp abilities would need to be added to minimize
the transcoding required. The audio only trancoding will do a hour
video in about 5 minutes, and of the stuff I record maybe 1/3 is audio
only, on a cabletv system, all of the SD digital stuff would be audio
only trancoded.
So I would be looking at an external script or program to read out
the mythtv info, and create another entry with a slightly different
filename, since mythtv has a couple of perl scripts that do each of
the steps it should not be that difficult to actually do. This would
be added to the transcode script that I have that has the logic
to handle the mvp stuff, I guess eventually this could be re-coded
into mythtv and added as an actual transcode option.
Roger
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