[mythtv-users] Can I mythexport without transcoding?

Another Sillyname anothersname at googlemail.com
Fri Sep 3 18:48:14 UTC 2010


On 3 September 2010 19:36, Matt Emmott <memmott at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Another Sillyname
> <anothersname at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 3 September 2010 18:35, Matt Emmott <memmott at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Another Sillyname
>> > <anothersname at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Matt
>> >>
>> >> Perhaps you could give an outline of exactly what you're trying to
>> >> achieve and people could suggest a different way to get to the end
>> >> result?
>> >>
>> >> For example I'm trying to get my head around why you would use an RSS
>> >> feed to distribute the information rather then a pull from a web link.
>> >>  Are you wanting to remotely automatically pull the program based on
>> >> it being in the RSS list?
>> >> _______________________________________________
>> >
>> > Heh, sorry. I sometimes go all over the map with these posts.Here's what
>> > I'm
>> > trying to do:
>> >
>> >
>> > I have my myth system set up at home, and I've built a combined BE/FE
>> > here
>> > at work, as well as on my work laptop. In a nutshell, I want to
>> > transport
>> > recordings to work to watch at lunchtime etc, and I want to use Myth to
>> > play
>> > the movies at work. Some coworkers have expressed an interest in Myth
>> > for
>> > themselves and I want to be able to demo its features.
>> >
>> > I want the highest quality possible since we have both a 60" Plasma and
>> > very
>> > nice (albeit 720p) projector in our conference room. As was stated
>> > previously, moving that much data across the internet is not such a hot
>> > idea, although I could see myself doing a one-off download if needed (I
>> > have
>> > a 2mb uplink from home).
>> >
>> > The reason I attached myself to mythexport is two-fold: One, I would
>> > like to
>> > automatically export recordings to an ipod-friendly format for my Evo
>> > and my
>> > girlfriend's iPod. That's out of the scope of this post but it's what
>> > got me
>> > into mythexport in the first place. Two, I want an easy, semi-automatic
>> > way
>> > to get tv shows from home to work and have virtually no coding, html or
>> > sql
>> > skills. So the thought was to have mirobridge running on my portable
>> > computer and mythexport on my home computer, and either manually import
>> > the
>> > specific episodes through Miro or set up subscriptions and let my
>> > computers
>> > do the talking automatically.
>> >
>> > I have a lot of ideas in my head at once so I'm sorry if I wasn't more
>> > clear
>> > in my other posts. Thanks for the input though, sometimes I need to be
>> > smacked around to stay on track. :-)
>> >
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>>
>> OK
>>
>> In that case I'd suggest you go a different way.
>>
>> I don't know if you've played with mythweb?  If you have you can see
>> that there are links on the recorded programs pages that will allow
>> you to 'pull' the source file either before or after a transcode.  I
>> have to say I'd STRONGLY urge you to do some kind of transcoding as
>> pulling a 1gb file even over a 2mb link is going to take a lot of time
>> and also upset your ISP in all likelihood.  The other advantage with
>> nuvexport is it changes the output files to 'recognisable' names and
>> can also strip all adverts as well as topping and tailing the
>> recording, by outputting the files to a storage group you can also
>> access them remotely via mythweb.
>>
>> To just 'view' quickly stuff at work flash will probably suffice (and
>> transcoding into flash can almost be done on the fly if you have a
>> decent processor at the back end), however you should perhaps look at
>> using nuvexport to transcode to high quality avi's or x264's and then
>> pull them for movies and stuff.
>>
>> To give you an example a 6-7GB BBC HD x264 1080 source recording will
>> usually compress down to about 1.1GB x264 720p after transcoding
>> without any quality loss IMHO.  1.5GB Standard Definition (SD)
>> recordings can be compressed down to 250-300mb files.
>>
>> Hopefully this will give you another path to think about, the tools
>> already exist to do what you want and you don't need to re-invent the
>> wheel.
>>
>> Regards and have a good weekend.
>> _______________________________________________
>>
>
> Thanks, but that's not what I want to do. Viewing stuff from work over flash
> is unwatchable full-screen. It's really blocky and pixelated.
>
> I use mythweb a lot, but I don't want to pull down each recording manually,
> nuvexport it, and then pull it to my other myth machine. With my idea I'd
> set up an export and then just run the export user jobs on the recording I
> want, and pick them up on the portable Mythbox.
>
> As for the bandwidth, I'm not sure if you saw it but the copying over the
> net piece would only be on a one-off "emergency" basis.
>
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You don't have to pull it then nuvexport it.

Run nuvexport as a script locally on the box where the recording is,
output the file to the same box to a directory that's in a storage
group.

Now you have the transcoded file available from within mythweb.


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