[mythtv-users] How can I start a lossless transcode from mythweb

[Anthony Giggins]

On 27/02/2011, at 11:59 PM, "Michael T. Dean" <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:

> On 02/27/2011 05:29 AM, Anthony Giggins wrote:
>> How can I start a lossless transcode from mythweb?
>> 
>> If I select transcode I dont get any options which profile to use so I 
>> assume it would use the Default profile but every transcode I've tried 
>> from mythweb fails. I've currently got the High Quality Profile set to 
>> lossless and that works great when running it from the frontend, would 
>> setting my default profile to lossless fix this or should I look at 
>> running a user job?
> 
> I don't know much about transcoding, but I /think/ that whichever 
> profile (Default, High Quality, Low Quality or Live TV) you set as 
> "Autodetect from MPEG-2" (assuming an MPEG-2 source recording) is the 
> one that's used when a transcode is triggered from MythWeb or started 
> using X in TV Playback (versus selecting the job specifics in Watch 
> Recordings).  So just set up High Quality as your autodetect profile.
> 
> Mike
> ______________________________

Thanks for that after finding the default transcoder under 'TV Settings' | 'General' it should be all good I'll write something up in the wiki

Cheers,

Anthony