[mythtv-users] 0.24 Python Bindings - Transcode Wrapper Script

[Christopher Kerr]

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Robert Houghton <robbadler at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Christopher Kerr <mythtv at theseekerr.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 4:46 AM, Robert Houghton <robbadler at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 7:26 AM, Christopher Kerr
>> > <mythtv at theseekerr.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi all,
>> >>
>> >> Just trying to get a transcoding job working using the Wrapper Script
>> >> on the wiki, and I seem to be running up against some issues with the
>> >> Python bindings:
>> >>
>> >> Traceback (most recent call last):
>> >>  File "./x264_inplace.py", line 96, in <module>
>> >>    main()
>> >>  File "./x264_inplace.py", line 88, in main
>> >>    runjob(jobid=args[0])
>> >>  File "./x264_inplace.py", line 24, in runjob
>> >>    sg = findfile(rec.basename, rec.storagegroup, db=db)
>> >> NameError: global name 'findfile' is not defined
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> The script is marked as 0.24 compatible, so I'd appreciate any help
>> >> anyone can offer with getting it working!
>> >>
>> >> Regards,
>> >> Chris
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>> >
>> > Chris,
>> >
>> > I recently added a perl script to the wiki that does x264 transcoding.
>> > It
>> > would be trivial to have this script replace the recording file instead
>> > adding to the sql
>> >
>> > http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/High_Quality_Transcode
>> >
>> > If you get your script working, maybe post it to the wiki as well for
>> > comparison?
>>
>> Robert,
>>
>> I've been using your script, but I'm not particularly fluent in Perl,
>> so changing anything more than the exposed parameters is a bit beyond
>> me. I've tweaked it to suit my needs (forced channels to stereo, used
>> a constant rate factor instead of an average bit rate) and it's been
>> working well, but I'm not confident that I understand it well enough
>> to go changing the bits that directly manipulate the database.
>>
>> - Chris
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>
> Chris,
>
> I will put in a flag to do in-place transcode in the near future. Maybe I'll
> even add comments :)

Oh, and is it possible to have it keep the commercial flagging data
and the original recording thumbnail? At the moment I'm always getting
the first frame of the recording as the thumbnail, which is invariably
in the credits of the previous show.

- Chris