[mythtv-users] exporting hd-pvr recordings

[Ian Forde]

On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 18:38 -0700, Ian Forde wrote:
> Nope - that wasn't it... I initially tried version 2.4.4, which was
> released relatively recently (last month, I believe).  I also checked
> out the svn revision that you used and compiled it from source. Same
> result, unfortunately... I'm going to start digging into the script
> output to see if anything sticks out..

Okay - I've learned a few things... first of which being that people
really shouldn't attempt this unless they're willing to live with the
consequences...

That being said, after adjusting the patch in ticket 5809 and applying
it to one's copy of trunk, one *must* create a cutlist for a recording.
Otherwise the .proj file created can have a line such as:

1000000);

which was supposed to mean "use from frame 0 to frame 100000" but
doesn't since nothing's defined.  Anyone can feel free to update the
patch and update the ticket, but since, as Robert stated, it's a messy
hack, one shouldn't get one's hopes up for it going into trunk.

There - disclaimer is done... ;)

I tried the manual steps on my laptop, which is running Ubuntu 9.04
alpha, and I managed to get an almost-workable mkv file.  Sound sync was
off a little, but seeking seemed to work.  Note that avidemux was the
same version on my Ubuntu laptop and CentOS5 server, so the differing
factor was... you guessed it... ffmpeg.  So now I have 2 choices:

1. Update ffmpeg on my centos box (either from source or wait for Axel
to push out 0.5.0 rpms)
2. Setup my handy-dandy Ubuntu VM that does nuvexport to run
mythjobqueue and only run hd-pvr exports in there...

Not sure which I'll end up doing, but for now I'm just going to watch
some movies!  Thanks again Robert for the assist!

	-I