[mythtv-users] how to select transcoding profiles?

[Daniel Carter]

2008/9/1 Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>

> On 08/31/2008 07:18 PM, Daniel Carter wrote:
> > Seems it's a bug in myth that any new transcode profiles are available
> > for automatic transcode, but the manual transcode from the frontend
> > only allows you to select the fixed list of profiles myth ships with
> > as default.
>
> Unimplemented features do not constitute a bug.
>

:)

It might not be a coding bug but it is certainly a usability bug if the
system has a feature to setup custom transcoding profiles, but then does not
let you select them when transcoding.  Much time was wasted thinking...
maybe it only loads the list of transcode profiles at startup and i need to
restart the front-end, nope. Maybe it loads the the list from the backend
and i need to restart the backend, nope. Maybe there's another list of
profiles maintained somewhere else in the settings and i just need to dig
around, nope. Maybe in the playback profiles there is a setting to select
the transcode profiles you want to make available in a playback group, nope
etc etc

Just another one of those features in myth that always seems far more
complicated to setup than should be necessary.  Nevermind, can't beat the
price! And it's a minor point;  i have just set the default profile to the
settings i want, will transcode the programs i want at this setting, and
then set the profile back.
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