[mythtvnz] Advice for encoding ...

[Jonathan Hoskin]

I've just given Avidemux a go with todays Hi-5 episode. The morning kids
programs are good for archiving as they have no intermediary ad breaks. Just
start and end cruft.
1) Avidemux couldn't open HD mpeg-ts files direct from Myth. It just says
"Could not open file".

2) Consequently, I exported a 30 minute HD recording with: HandbrakeCLI -Z
PS3 -i [File from Myth].mpg -o [File for Avidemux].mp4
    - Encoding took ~1 hour

3) Opened the mp4 file using the Avidemux GUI (Qt4 version for Mac) to set
the start and end cutpoints, and saved to a new file using the copy option
for video and audio codecs.
    - Took about 10 minutes to learn the GUI and complete the edit and
stream copy. Next time I figure it will take about 3 minutes.

The file plays back fine. So from a functionality perspective it works as
required.

The Avidemux scripting options look like a SEP. If I get around to it I
might learn them, but the GUI is just so easy to use :)

Jonathan


On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Steve V <olivuts at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > A possible approach?
> > ================
> >
> > 1. Get your cut points right by commflag plus editing to get them
> > 100%. The cutpoints are in the database.
> >
> > 2. Convert the cutpoints to the format used by avidemux, in fact they
> > may even be the same, "frames from start of file (I think) - this I
> > need to check.
> >
> > 3. Use avidemux on the commandline to process the file, cutting out
> > the cutlist. avidemux is quite programmable using a javascript/ecma.
> >
> > http://www.avidemux.org/admWiki/index.php?title=Scripting
> >
>
> > Well at least I know to stop trying to transcode using myth on my HD
> > recordings.
> >
> > Your ideas sound great, a winter weekends scripting for someone? I would
> be
> > happy to offer time for testing. My coding experience is currently
> nowhere
> > near what would be required for creating, maybe in a year or so.
>
> Of course I haven't yet checked that avidemux does cope with these
> files, I was just basing my idea on the fact that it is scriptable!
>
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