[mythtv-users] Wrong audio stream selected by default

[John Pilkington]

On 16/01/13 02:02, Michael Stucky wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 7:13 PM, Michael Stucky <mike at stucky.us
> <mailto:mike at stucky.us>> wrote:
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>
>     On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Karl Dietz
>     <dekarl at spaetfruehstuecken.org
>     <mailto:dekarl at spaetfruehstuecken.org>> wrote:
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>         On 15.01.2013 23:43, Michael Stucky wrote:
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>             So, my question, is there a reason why mythtranscode removes
>             the the
>             Language parameter from the audio streams and randomly
>             switches the
>             order the audio streams?
>
>
>         I have noticed the same. From my understanding the lossless
>         transcode
>         will convert from TS to PS by default, the latter does not allow
>         specifying the audio track language IIRC.
>
>         There are a bunch of transcode/conversion/export scripts on the
>         wiki,
>         maybe one does fit your needs.
>
>         Regards,
>         Karl
>
>
>       Thanks Karl, at least I now understand why there is no language
>     parameter in the transcoded files. Part of the trial and error that
>     I went through was to try some of the scripts on the wiki (very few
>     of which seemed usable as written on Myth 0.26). Lossless_cut.py was
>     the most promising but the audio streams are out of sync on almost
>     all recordings (a know issue with the HDHR3-US tuners). The same
>     problem seems to exist with any script that does not use projectx or
>     mythtranscode and the scripts that use projectx to demux and mplex
>     to remux fail on HD content (at least for me they failed :-( ).
>
>     Since Projectx can keep the audio in sync with the video, is there
>     some combination of parameters to use with "projectx -tots ..." that
>     will result in a file that my FE can play?
>
>     Mike
>
>
> Or possible options that would keep mythtranscode from converting the TS
> to PS so the language parameter would be preserved?
>
> Mike
>

Have you tried http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Mythpycutter  ?

It just concatenates chunks of the original recording, with cuts at the 
nearest keyframe.  Much of the script is concerned with logging what is 
happening, but the actual work is quite straightforward. I believe a TS 
format will recover sync automatically.

I don't know the format of your HD recordings;  I haven't found a way of 
using Project-X for h264, although ISTR there are references to it in 
the code.

I wonder if my TV is hanging on uPnP playback of PS format 'Recordings'
because of the missing language marker...

John P