[mythtv-users] How do I auto transcode

Jon Bishop jon.the.wise.gdrive at gmail.com
Wed Aug 27 10:10:09 UTC 2008


On Aug 25, 2008, at 9:13 AM, Steve Peters - Priority Electronics wrote:

>
>>>> For 0.21,
>>>> (B) But ticking:
>>>> Frontend setup|TV Settings|Recording profiles|Hardware DVB
>>>> Encoders|Default|Enable auto-transcode after recording
>>>> did then auto-transcode.
>>
>> This did the trick. It would seem if you don't enable this in your
>> hardware recording profile, it won't allow it to auto-transcode once
>> you tell a schedule to do so, unless it is specifically set. This
>> seems like a bad place for this setting, as most people don't adjust
>> hardware profiles (it just grabs the file off the airwaves and dumps
>> it to disk... who would have thought there were settings to tweak?)
>>
>> ~Jon
>
>
> Well, for me this didn't work. I have auto transcode set for the  
> recording,
> and the recording profile, but nothing.
>
> -Steve

On the backend, in mythtv-setup, do you have transcoding enabled? Do  
you have it set to transcode only on the host that recorded it, or  
allowed on all backends?

The number of places that transcode settings are hidden is unreal.  
Maybe they will be consolidated at some point.

~Jon



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