[mythtv-users] Best HD transcoding setup & settings?

[Alan Anderson]

Sorry to hijack this thread but this is related.   I used the examples to set 
up mythtv-trunk (0.21-157) to transcode HDHomerun recordings.  They work 
great if I transcode each show manually.  It took three system 48 hours to 
transcode all my HD recordings. The show "House" was the only recordings that 
failed I am guessing a noisy recording.  So that part works fine thanks to 
bmayland  for the info

I have four transcode profiles named "Autodetect from x"  where x is 180i 720p 
480i 480p.   However if I select a show to transcode automatically using the 
autodetect method, it simply does not do so.  It goes direct to Commercial 
flagging.  Running mthbackbackend with -v jobqueue as far as I can tell the 
transcode job never gets queued, I do not see any errors.

Automatic transcode after recording from the PVR-x50 tuners works fine and 
happens before commercial flagging.

I noticed under the Transcode screen there is a HDHomerun transcoders profile 
under this I set up 4 profiles with the same name as the transcode 
profiles "Autodetect from x"   and each one I selected "enable Auto-transcode 
after recordings"  This did not help again I did not even see the transcode 
job queued.  So I set up four more profiles simply named 1080i 720p 480i 480p  
Also set "enable auto-transcode after recording"  Again no help.

If I select a recording to automatic transcode using the profile "Autodetect 
from 720p"  no automatic transcodeing happens.   I was careful to look back 
in the logs to make sure that show was previously transcoded manually with 
the 720p profile.   So I was not doing something silly like selecting the 
720p profile for a 1080i recording.   

So any ides on what step I missed?

Thanks