[mythtv-users] mythtranscode barfing

[Michael T. Dean]

On 09/13/06 09:25, Jens Axboe wrote:

>On Wed, Sep 13 2006, Janne Grunau wrote:
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>>On Wednesday 13 September 2006 13:55, Jens Axboe wrote:
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>>>Newbie question: can mythtranscode do mpeg2 -> divx (or whatever)
>>>conversions to save some more space, or would that be left for user
>>>defined jobs?
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>>Yes it can. You have to configure a transcoding profile to activate it 
>>(Setup -> TV Settings -> Recording Profiles -> Transcoders). Uncheck 
>>the Lossless transcoding radio button and you should be able to setup 
>>mpeg4 or rtjpeg as output codec. 
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>Great thanks, will try that when I'm back home.
>

Note, though, that doing this will give you a NuppelVideo container with 
MPEG-4 data inside.  So, when you see a file that ends with ".nuv", you 
know it worked.  (And, you'll need to install the appropriate CODEC's to 
play it back on a Windows machine, for example.)

Mike