Re: mythtranscode

Ross Boylan <ross@???> writes:

> On Wed, 2012-12-19 at 00:28 +0100, Christian Marillat wrote:
>> jim@??? writes:
>>
>> > Is it possible to package mythtranscode into a separate package instead of
>> > in mythtv-backend? I use the archive feature on a machine that is running
>> > the frontend without the backend. I can get everything to work fine
>> > provided that I copy mythtranscode onto the frontend machine.
>>
>> Good idea. I'll add this new package in the next upload. I'll also start
>> to package git snapshot from 0.26 fixes branch.
>>
>> Christian
>>
> It would be nice to have a mythtranscode 0.26 that works; some recent
> discussion on the myth list suggests the problem that causes to crash
> always *may* have been fixed (and may really be with ffmpeg). The
> problem is with lossless transcodes AFAIK; that's the only kind I've
> used.

The best when you see that, is to forward the patch and bug report URLs
here. I'm always happy to fix bugs even for upstream bugs. I'm talking
about bugs and not about patches to add new features.

Christian