Mailing List Archive: Feature Idea

Feature Idea - Archive TV Movies

Jul 18, 2003, 5:10 AM

Post #1 of 6 (1398 views)

I am really enjoy my MythTV machine and recently had an idea for a feature
I wanted to put forward.

I recorded to movies the other day, Four Weddings and a Funeral and The
Mask of Zorro. I'm running a PVR 250 at an encoding rate that seems to
balance quality and file size reasonably well (~2GB/hour). However the two
movies represent about 10GB of disk space. I was thinking how convenient
it would be to be able to select large movies from the playback list and
have them encoded to a lower bit rate file format, and automatically moved
over to the MythVideo directory. IE Click on it, select "Transfer to VIdeo
Library" and has it encode it in a more compressed format, remove it from
the TV listings, and add it in to the MythVideo library.

As before, I'd love to submit a patch for this, but I'm not a programmer,
just a very satisfied user.

Any thoughts on this?

-Jeff

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Re: Feature Idea - Archive TV Movies [ In reply to ]

megadeth at geekopolis

Jul 18, 2003, 5:33 AM

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mythmkmovie does this, but it's not integrated into the menu system.

Site for it is.. http://www.icelus.org/

Transcoding is turned on in CVS now, which also does what you want, but
does not move them to mythmovie. And it also can be ran automatically
after each show is recorded, but it doesnt support the comercial
cutlists (not sure why!?) It'll convert from mpeg2 to mpeg4 if you
desire, I tried it last night, but didnt get any sound from the output,
might not have everything setup on mine correctly.

I use mythmkmovie for now, because I want the comercial cutlists removed
from the recordings.

L8r mega

Jeff C wrote:
> I am really enjoy my MythTV machine and recently had an idea for a
> feature I wanted to put forward.
>
> I recorded to movies the other day, Four Weddings and a Funeral and The
> Mask of Zorro. I'm running a PVR 250 at an encoding rate that seems to
> balance quality and file size reasonably well (~2GB/hour). However the
> two movies represent about 10GB of disk space. I was thinking how
> convenient it would be to be able to select large movies from the
> playback list and have them encoded to a lower bit rate file format, and
> automatically moved over to the MythVideo directory. IE Click on it,
> select "Transfer to VIdeo Library" and has it encode it in a more
> compressed format, remove it from the TV listings, and add it in to the
> MythVideo library.
>
> As before, I'd love to submit a patch for this, but I'm not a
> programmer, just a very satisfied user.
>
> Any thoughts on this?
>
> -Jeff
>
>
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Re: Feature Idea - Archive TV Movies [ In reply to ]

tuner at hfx

Jul 18, 2003, 5:41 AM

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At 08:33 AM 7/18/2003 -0400, you wrote:

Thanks Mega. Do you have a sample command line switch list you can share?

-Jeff

>mythmkmovie does this, but it's not integrated into the menu system.
>
>Site for it is.. http://www.icelus.org/
>
>Transcoding is turned on in CVS now, which also does what you want, but
>does not move them to mythmovie. And it also can be ran automatically
>after each show is recorded, but it doesnt support the comercial cutlists
>(not sure why!?) It'll convert from mpeg2 to mpeg4 if you desire, I tried
>it last night, but didnt get any sound from the output, might not have
>everything setup on mine correctly.
>
>I use mythmkmovie for now, because I want the comercial cutlists removed
>from the recordings.
>
>L8r mega
>
>
>
>Jeff C wrote:
>>I am really enjoy my MythTV machine and recently had an idea for a
>>feature I wanted to put forward.
>>I recorded to movies the other day, Four Weddings and a Funeral and The
>>Mask of Zorro. I'm running a PVR 250 at an encoding rate that seems to
>>balance quality and file size reasonably well (~2GB/hour). However the
>>two movies represent about 10GB of disk space. I was thinking how
>>convenient it would be to be able to select large movies from the
>>playback list and have them encoded to a lower bit rate file format, and
>>automatically moved over to the MythVideo directory. IE Click on it,
>>select "Transfer to VIdeo Library" and has it encode it in a more
>>compressed format, remove it from the TV listings, and add it in to the
>>MythVideo library.
>>As before, I'd love to submit a patch for this, but I'm not a programmer,
>>just a very satisfied user.
>>Any thoughts on this?
>>-Jeff
>>
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Re: Feature Idea - Archive TV Movies [ In reply to ]

megadeth at geekopolis

Jul 18, 2003, 5:53 AM

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mythmkmovie is menu driven, pretty easy. L8r mega

Jeff C wrote:
> At 08:33 AM 7/18/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>
> Thanks Mega. Do you have a sample command line switch list you can share?
>
> -Jeff
>
>> mythmkmovie does this, but it's not integrated into the menu system.
>>
>> Site for it is.. http://www.icelus.org/
>>
>> Transcoding is turned on in CVS now, which also does what you want,
>> but does not move them to mythmovie. And it also can be ran
>> automatically after each show is recorded, but it doesnt support the
>> comercial cutlists (not sure why!?) It'll convert from mpeg2 to mpeg4
>> if you desire, I tried it last night, but didnt get any sound from the
>> output, might not have everything setup on mine correctly.
>>
>> I use mythmkmovie for now, because I want the comercial cutlists
>> removed from the recordings.
>>
>> L8r mega
>>
>>
>>
>> Jeff C wrote:
>>
>>> I am really enjoy my MythTV machine and recently had an idea for a
>>> feature I wanted to put forward.
>>> I recorded to movies the other day, Four Weddings and a Funeral and
>>> The Mask of Zorro. I'm running a PVR 250 at an encoding rate that
>>> seems to balance quality and file size reasonably well (~2GB/hour).
>>> However the two movies represent about 10GB of disk space. I was
>>> thinking how convenient it would be to be able to select large movies
>>> from the playback list and have them encoded to a lower bit rate file
>>> format, and automatically moved over to the MythVideo directory. IE
>>> Click on it, select "Transfer to VIdeo Library" and has it encode it
>>> in a more compressed format, remove it from the TV listings, and add
>>> it in to the MythVideo library.
>>> As before, I'd love to submit a patch for this, but I'm not a
>>> programmer, just a very satisfied user.
>>> Any thoughts on this?
>>> -Jeff
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> mythtv-users mailing list
>>> mythtv-users@snowman.net
>>> http://lists.snowman.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
>>>
>>
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>
>
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Re: Feature Idea - Archive TV Movies [ In reply to ]

cpinkham at bc2va

Jul 18, 2003, 7:01 AM

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> Transcoding is turned on in CVS now, which also does what you want, but
> does not move them to mythmovie. And it also can be ran automatically
> after each show is recorded, but it doesnt support the comercial
> cutlists (not sure why!?) It'll convert from mpeg2 to mpeg4 if you

I believe it uses the Myth cutlist but not the automatically generated
commercial skip cutlists because they aren't 100% perfect (and may never
be). So if you want to use the built-in transcoding, turn automatic
transcoding off, then go in and edit a recording that you want to transcode.
Hit 'Z' to copy the commercial skip list into the cutlist then check the
cuts to see if they're accurate. Then you can run mythtranscode manually
to transcode that show using the commercial skip list (which is now in
the cutlist).

<disclaimer>IANTGWWTTBIATGWWTCSS (I am not the guy who wrote the transcoder
but I am the guy who wrote the commercial skip stuff)</disclaimer>

Chris

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Re: Feature Idea - Archive TV Movies [ In reply to ]

megadeth at geekopolis

Jul 18, 2003, 7:10 AM

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How do you run the transcoder manually? I dug around the help files,
but couldnt find anything.

Also, why no sound? when converted with mythmkmovie it works fine, but
with the transcoder no sound.

I dont have much use for the transcoder, it would be great to
automatically do it, but for my usage, I delete a few days after
recording, and I use mkmovie on the ones I want to keep around, moving
them into another folder with filenames I can identify with.

L8r mega

Chris Pinkham wrote:
>>Transcoding is turned on in CVS now, which also does what you want, but
>>does not move them to mythmovie. And it also can be ran automatically
>>after each show is recorded, but it doesnt support the comercial
>>cutlists (not sure why!?) It'll convert from mpeg2 to mpeg4 if you
>
>
> I believe it uses the Myth cutlist but not the automatically generated
> commercial skip cutlists because they aren't 100% perfect (and may never
> be). So if you want to use the built-in transcoding, turn automatic
> transcoding off, then go in and edit a recording that you want to transcode.
> Hit 'Z' to copy the commercial skip list into the cutlist then check the
> cuts to see if they're accurate. Then you can run mythtranscode manually
> to transcode that show using the commercial skip list (which is now in
> the cutlist).
>
> <disclaimer>IANTGWWTTBIATGWWTCSS (I am not the guy who wrote the transcoder
> but I am the guy who wrote the commercial skip stuff)</disclaimer>
>
> Chris
>
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