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fatgerman at ntlworld

Nov 7, 2009, 5:29 AM

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Transcoding recordings and moving them to mythvideo

Hi,

I've googled this subject but I can't seem to find an answer.

I've got a bunch of films I've recorded from TV which I would like to
(a) move from recordings into mythvideo, so I don't lose them and so that I get the mythvideo metadata and
(b) transcode them to xvid in the process, so as to save disc space.

What I do currently is download them to my laptop using mythweb, transcode them with AVIDemux, and then copy them back to my myth box. This is becoming slightly more tedious every day :) Is there a script or something that integrates nicely into the mythtv GUI that would let me do this? I've googled mythtranscode but I can't see how I can use it to do what I want.

Thanks,

Mark
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gordon.mccrae at googlemail

Nov 7, 2009, 6:35 AM

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Re: Transcoding recordings and moving them to mythvideo [In reply to]

2009/11/7 Mark Greenwood <fatgerman [at] ntlworld>

> Hi,
> myth.find_orphans.pl
> I've googled this subject but I can't seem to find an answer.
>
> I've got a bunch of films I've recorded from TV which I would like to
> (a) move from recordings into mythvideo, so I don't lose them and so that I
> get the mythvideo metadata and
> (b) transcode them to xvid in the process, so as to save disc space.
>
> What I do currently is download them to my laptop using mythweb, transcode
> them with AVIDemux, and then copy them back to my myth box. This is becoming
> slightly more tedious every day :) Is there a script or something that
> integrates nicely into the mythtv GUI that would let me do this? I've
> googled mythtranscode but I can't see how I can use it to do what I want.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark
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>

Personally I always run my conversions on another system to reduce the load
on the MythTV server.

I run mythrename with the link option to create human friendly symbolic
links to the recording file, then run my mkxvid script to convert the XVID
format and put them straight into the appropriate folder. I then remove the
MPG files from the MythTV storage directory for those programmes I've
converted and lastly run myth.find_orphans.pl to get the database back into
sync with the changes made at the filesystem level.

After that, all you need to do is go into "Video Manager" within
MythFrontend to get it to update the "VIDEOS".

Unfortunately I'm away from my home systems until the end of the week, so
cannot send you the mkxvid script until then.

Cheers
Gordon

fatgerman at ntlworld

Nov 7, 2009, 7:38 AM

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Re: Transcoding recordings and moving them to mythvideo [In reply to]

On Saturday 07 Nov 2009 14:35:47 Gordon McCrae wrote:
> 2009/11/7 Mark Greenwood <fatgerman [at] ntlworld>
>
> > Hi,
> > myth.find_orphans.pl
> > I've googled this subject but I can't seem to find an answer.
> >
> > I've got a bunch of films I've recorded from TV which I would like to
> > (a) move from recordings into mythvideo, so I don't lose them and so that I
> > get the mythvideo metadata and
> > (b) transcode them to xvid in the process, so as to save disc space.
> >
> > What I do currently is download them to my laptop using mythweb, transcode
> > them with AVIDemux, and then copy them back to my myth box. This is becoming
> > slightly more tedious every day :) Is there a script or something that
> > integrates nicely into the mythtv GUI that would let me do this? I've
> > googled mythtranscode but I can't see how I can use it to do what I want.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Mark
> > _______________________________________________
> > mythtv-users mailing list
> > mythtv-users [at] mythtv
> > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
> >
>
> Personally I always run my conversions on another system to reduce the load
> on the MythTV server.

Yes that's one good reason for it, but seeing as my mythbox is idle for 90% of the time I thought it would be ideal if I could queue some kind of job to run, say, when I'm at work. I wonder if it would be possible to make a user job to do this? A copy of your script would be a great help, thanks.

>
> I run mythrename with the link option to create human friendly symbolic
> links to the recording file, then run my mkxvid script to convert the XVID
> format and put them straight into the appropriate folder. I then remove the
> MPG files from the MythTV storage directory for those programmes I've
> converted and lastly run myth.find_orphans.pl to get the database back into
> sync with the changes made at the filesystem level.
>
> After that, all you need to do is go into "Video Manager" within
> MythFrontend to get it to update the "VIDEOS".
>
> Unfortunately I'm away from my home systems until the end of the week, so
> cannot send you the mkxvid script until then.
>
> Cheers
> Gordon
>
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jarpublic at gmail

Nov 7, 2009, 7:53 AM

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Re: Transcoding recordings and moving them to mythvideo [In reply to]

> Yes that's one good reason for it, but seeing as my mythbox is idle for 90% of the time I thought it would be ideal if I could queue some kind of job to run, say, when I'm at work. I wonder if it would be possible to make a user job to do this? A copy of your script would be a great help, thanks.

I would not recommend getting a copy of that script.
myth.find_orphans.pl is depricated and hasn't been updated as far as I
know. So there is are no guarantees that it isn't going to mess up
your database, particularly with the move to .22. Also much of the
other stuff simply is unnecessary. For example you could just delete
the recording from the frontend after you are happy with the
transcoded version in mythvideo. Then you don't need to use any
unsupported scripts or mess with the database or file system.

You can set up a user job to do what you want. For future proofing and
better quality for a giving file size I would recommend that you go
with H264 in an MKV container rather than doing xvid and AVI. Along
those lines mythnuv2mkv is a popular choice. The wiki has information
on how to set it up and run it as a user job:
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Mythnuv2mkv. The author does note that they
have done no testing with mythtv .22. But that is probably going to be
the case with most solutions.
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