I can do clock time and CPU time, but they may not correlate. Performance metrics are a little harder, as some of these things are happening in parallel depending on the flow you've selected, and/or if other shows are going on simultaneously. Not a bad thought to have a separate chronological log, which doesn't get erased as the regular one does. So, counting the minute that we have to let TiVo cool down between downloads, over a couple hours you can check all your channels. Then it logs whether it is MP2 or H.264 and you can see the results in the Edit Channels panel. It only downloads a few megabytes for each show, which is enough to tell it the format.
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It will submit a Test download for each channel that you happen to have a show recorded on. So.that's what the Test All Channels is for (and there is no other way available AFAIK). With a 1080i input, 4.0G 1hr input, mencoder at 960x540 takes about 31 minutes to encode, and about depends on the resolution you're looking for. That's about what I'm seeing as well on performance. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or mute the thread. You are receiving this because you commented. When you say "shaky", do you mean that it's not appearing at all, or that the marked values are wrong?Įverything else still showing up proper values in iTunes etc? Not much we can affect on iphone skipping. Have you seen any slowness on the download process as reported above? Maybe should tune that down for the default. They say that +6 doubles the size of the file, so if you want to try it back at about the same size, you could try 19. If you'd like to try modifying that, just add -crf xx to the video options "where 0 is lossless, 23 is default, and 51 is worst possible". Have you tried the "test all channels" in Prefs>Channels? It will check all your channels at once(that you have show on). On Sep 21, 2016, at 1:34 PM, Hugh Mackworth wrote:
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Typical iTunes update where a few new little bugs get introduced. That leaves it out of my Plex app since I didn't configure it to scan that folder. That always resulted in the show being moved into the "TV Shows" file hierarchy in past versions but It no longer moves it. Second, if I obtain a show from other sources that lacks the proper metadata, it's always dumped into "Home Videos" so I'd have to retag it.
Most likely an oversight or bug I figure.Įverything looks fine in the metadata although I noticed two issues in the latest iTunes unrelated to cTiVo. ATV lost one press skip in the new release so you have to pull down the list of chapter stops and select the one desired. I'll have a better feel for it now that both my phone and iPad are on 10. That makes me think it's more likely to be an iOS problem rather than a cTiVo problem. For example, instead of skipping to the next marker, it might skip to the last one but if i skip back from that point, it finds the intervening markers. My guess is that's pretty close to the max for my network connection (there is a Powerline Ethernet segment in it). I don't have past numbers but it feels about the same. The downloads run at 4MB/sec according to cTiVo.
I'll do some tests to see if there's a big performance or quality difference.
I'll try the change quality parameter but since that's going to re-encode the file, I'm not sure what the ffmpeg format is offering me over my existing use of Handbrake encodes. Is there any way I'll know a channel switched to MPEG4 other than rerunning the "test all"? No problems with the "test all channels" although I recall being a bit confused that clicking on the button to clear all test results didn't actually appear to change anything on the screen. I've always assumed it was an iOS thing but I need more time watching shows I encoded on the past to be more confident that there's any real improvement. At least based on this one show, it still good on iTunes/ATV3/ATV4 but it better on my iPhone (but not my iPad). I'll need more shows to know if this was a one-off specific to that program or a bug.Ĭommercial skipping has alway worked well in iTunes and on my ATV3/4 but has been very shaky on iOS (better on iPad than iPhone).
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The show (1080i) was Full Frontal with Samantha Bee/Super Lobbyist. As you'd expect, video quality was excellent and the process was fast, but the file is about 70% larger.Ĭommercial marking missed the break between the last commercial block and the last program segment. No problem playing the result via an ATV4 and on my iPhone (have not checked 5.1 sound yet). Preferences/Channels showed a couple of MPEG4 channels (TBDHDP, UNVSOHD) on Comcast in my area (Pierce County, Washington) so I tried out the ffmpeg Comskip/5.1 format.
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