David Shay wrote:

----- Original Message ----- From: "Brad Templeton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 2:05 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] How to record HD and SD versions of same show





On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 12:55:09PM -0400, James Armstrong wrote:


David Shay wrote:


I have some HDTV-capable frontends and some non-HDTV capable frontends.


I


would like to setup a "record all showings on this channel" entry for a
series, one for the HD channel and one for the SD channel, thereby


getting


two non-duplicated versions of every episode, one in HD and one in SD.


=> Or you could write a script to transcode/down-rez the HD version and


keep it in videos. It will look much better than any version recorded
off something like a pvr-250, and may look better than a version recorded
off the SDTV digital subchannel, if that's what you are doing.



I am recording the SD versions on a pvr-250.

Well, I've tried various ways to transcode/downres the shows from the HD
channels and I can get that working well enough for actual Mythfrontends.
My problem is that I am also using some Hauppauge MediaMVP psuedo-frontends
and I can't seem to get a working mencoder or other command to transcode
down and play correctly, i.e. with correct A/V sync and the ability to skip
forward/backward correctly.  Yeah, that's really an issue for the MVP list,
but that's why it's not a real suitable solution at the moment.  Anyone care
to share there favorite command lines to downres HDTV content?

I know I can turn off duplicate checking but that's not ideal either.  For
instance, right now if you turn off duplicate checking you would get about
1000 different copies of "Revelations"...

It is probably a simple matter to extend the duplicate checking to add another option for "title, subtitle, and recording schedule" so that it doesn't match duplicates from different recording schedules even if their title and subtitle are the same.

I think it is around line 1895 in scheduler.cpp under the mythbackend.

Kevin
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