[mythtv-users] Transcoding on a non myth machine

[Jeff Simpson]

On 1/5/06, Steve Adeff <adeffs at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thursday 05 January 2006 17:11, Jay Ung wrote:
> > I was wondering if it iis possible to transcode .nuv to avi on a machine
> > that is not a mythtv machine using nuvexport.    I am a total noob when
> it
> > comes to transcoding.  I would love to use my home server as the
> transcode
> > machine.  The mythtv box doesn't really have the horsepower.  But the
> > server is not a backend or have any mythtv stuff installed.  If it is
> > possible to transcode this way, is it possible to cut commercials?


It should be possible to do. I think the easiest way would be to open up the
mysql database and allow the nuvexport client on the other computer to
connect to it (to get program names, times, flagged edits, etc). This is
really only one step short of a slave backend, but it should be fairly easy
to set up.

> Basically what I would love to do is record a program, copy it to the
> > server via cron job, cut commercials, and transcode to xvid, then move
> it
> > back.  I would love to do this completely automatically.  So am I
> smoking
> > crack, or is this possible.


It's possible, but it might be a nightmare of cronjobs. If you can share the
recordings directory with samba or NFS, it would be easier. The trick to
automating it would be telling it which videos to do, and I'm not sure a
good way to do that.

mythtranscode is a feature you can use if you set it up as a slave backend,
but for SOME reason, it only supports RTJPEG, MPEG2 and MPEG4 (so no direct
to xvid/divx/etc, and not many options for any of these). The advantage to
this is that jobs can be scheduled automatically depending on type of
recording, but you can't pick many options for type of transcode to do.
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