[mythtv-commits] Ticket #5963: Auto-transcode and keyframe/seektable generation

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#5963: Auto-transcode and keyframe/seektable generation
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 Reporter:  nico at youplala.net  |       Owner:  ijr       
     Type:  defect             |      Status:  new       
 Priority:  minor              |   Milestone:  unknown   
Component:  mythtranscode      |     Version:  0.21-fixes
 Severity:  medium             |     Mlocked:  0         
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 Hello,

 I am a UK DVB-T user.


 == I have setup the DVB Hardware encoders recording profile to do auto-
 transcode, using lossless MPEG-2 transcoding. ==


 I am doing this for two reasons:

 1. Because I am far from the emiter, even though I have new/clean cabling
 and connections, a new antenna and a masthead amp, I have MPEG2 glitches
 that I'd like fixed
 2. because the 20% disk saving is not only a benefit, but also an elegant
 thing to do

 I have setup commflagging to happen after transcode.

 So the order of thing happening is in that order:

 1 Recording
 2 Transcoding
 2.1 lossless MPEG2 transcode
 2.2 keyframe index generation (what I believe is the seektable generation)
 3 Commflagging
 4 User jobs if any


 == The resulting recording has a bad seektable. ==


 ''I believe that the 2.2 step is being done on the .tmp file generated in
 2.1, before the file swap.''

 Manually running a mythcommflag --rebuild on the recording recovers the
 seektable correctly.

 I have attached a log from Mythbackend. It starts with the end of the
 recording, and ends with the commflagging.

 I am using Mythbuntu 8.10, 64-bit.

 nico[at]favia:~$ mythbackend --version
 Please include all output in bug reports.
 MythTV Version : 18722
 MythTV Branch : branches/release-0-21-fixes
 Library API : 0.21.20080304-1
 Network Protocol : 40
 Options compiled in:
 linux profile using_oss using_alsa using_arts using_jack using_backend
 using_dbox2 using_dvb using_firewire using_frontend using_hdhomerun
 using_iptv using_ivtv using_joystick_menu using_libfftw3 using_lirc
 using_opengl_vsync using_opengl_video using_v4l using_x11 using_xrandr
 using_xv using_xvmc using_xvmcw using_xvmc_vld using_glx_proc_addr_arb
 using_bindings_perl using_bindings_python using_opengl
 using_ffmpeg_threads using_libavc_5_3 using_live

 Thanks for the time spent on MythTV!

 Nico
 http://www.youplala.net/linux/home-theater-pc

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