[mythtv-users] Fwd: Recording Profiles

[Kevin Kuphal]

Matt wrote:

>Quoting Isaac Richards <ijr at case.edu>:
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>>On Monday 24 January 2005 10:59 pm, David Whyte wrote:
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>>>Aaaahh!  ~sound of brain clunking~
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>>>I think it is starting to make sense.  So, if I setup my recording
>>>profile to encode in DivX, then recorded a program using that profile,
>>>will the output be a nice small DivX file even though I have a DVB-T
>>>card that puts put MPEG2?
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>>No.
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>>Isaac
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>So the recording profiles do not modify the stream on-the-fly and are only 
>provided for transcoding?
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>Thanks :)
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No.  :)

Recording profiles are applicable for "Software encoders" as I believe 
is evident by that text prior to entering that screen (I'm not in front 
of my Myth box right now but I think I recall something about software 
encoders in that setup section).  Hardware encoders like HDTV, DVB, and 
PVR-x50s recording in their native formats and need transcoding to be 
coverted otherwise.

Kevin