Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="foxbenw" data-source="post: 915399" data-attributes="member: 115475">Glad to hear it. Nothing major from me. The only settings that might be useful to change at some point after are the language flags or the name of each track at the mkv merge stage. But that can be done at any point. You may want to set a subtitle track to be forced for some reason, as an example. I avoided doing this conversion due to worrying about subs needing to be redone at some point because of something i didn't know about at the time. Exactly what you have asked about. The only honest answer from me is, er, dunno! Obviously, if you are only remuxing the video and audio, there will be no problem there. You can stick them back in a ts file any time you need to. In practice I find the subs from ts files don't get used much anyway, but it's nice to have the option. 2 main comments:1) you'll end up with a mkv file that has exactly the same audio and video streams as the ts. At risk of sounding a bit of an a**e, why bother with mkv? in MP I think the the only difference will be that it will use the video codecs rather than the tv ones. But with most people switching to LAV that's now the same anyway. of course, if you have another player somewhere that can play mkvs but not ts that could be more important. The way i view most things like this is to try to keep formats as close to original as possible. ie remux, not re-encode, wherever possible. Using that logic it means no mkvs for tv recordings as it requires subtitle conversion in some form.2) In MP1 you will lose the ability to store the history of recorded programs, unless you never change the database. MP1 requires a ts file and a xml file to import into the recordings table. I find this essential as i use tvwishlist extensively. After I have removed the adverts i move the file to the storage folder structure for my tv series and then remove and reimport the files into the recordings database. so my recordings folder on my drive stays clean but MP still knows what i have recorded in the past. Of course, if i look in the recordings view inside MP it's a nightmare and has everything i have ever recorded. MP2 looks like it'll be much better at doing all this, as it won't require the xml files in order to be 'remembered'. Good work though. It's nice to get a 'process' set up for how you will keep things clean.Ben</blockquote>

Verification