[mythtv-users] MPEG-4 Simple@L3 and MPEG2 to MPEG-4 AVC H.264transcoding

[Mike Grusin]

> I am using two Plextor MPEG-4 hardware boxes connected to my cable TV
> set top boxes. The first problem I have is that if I go into Recording
> Profiles and select USB MPEG-4 Encoder and edit the bit rate and save the
> recordings still look the same and take up same amount of space. It does
> not matter if I have it set to 100 kbps or 8000 (looks like it is using
> 2200Kbps for everything).

I'm a newbie and may be very wrong here, but I noticed the same thing
(changing profiles doesn't change subsequent output).  However, when I quit
and restart mythtv, THEN the changes seem to take effect.

Hope this helps. -MG