Re: Recording TV: broken indexes, the endpos flag, and the recording status line

Mark James wrote:

>
> Recording using
>
>   mencoder -ovc copy -oac copy -endpos <secs> -vf harddup -o <file>.ts 
> dvb://<ch>
>
> instead creates a file into which you can't seek, needing its index fixed
> using a second mencoder run using -forceidx.  However both endpos and the
> recording progress line work.  I added the harddup filter to prevent
> mencoder complaining about duplicate frames.
>
> Can anyone suggest how I can record a properly indexed transport stream
> while having the endpos option available, and hopefully also having
> recording progress available (turned off with a -quiet flag)?
>
> Thank you.


-of mpeg -mpegopts format=dvd:tsaf will create an mpg, so no index is 
possible,
but seeking will work fairly well