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

[Anthony Giggins]

On 06/03/2011, at 12:48 AM, Greg <greg12866 at nycap.rr.com> wrote:

> On 03/05/2011 06:56 AM, Anthony Giggins wrote:
>> 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
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> I don't think I fully understand transcoding.. I've tried it out in the 
> past. I was just being curious as to what it does. I have a few questions:
> 1. When you transcode does it remove the commercials if it finds a cut 
> list?
Yes

> 2. Does it save the recording it to a different location and preserve 
> the original?
Depending how you've setup your transcoding profiles it can do that

> 3. Just what does a lossless transcode do?
Losses will remove any cuts without loss of quality, depending on you transcoding profiles you can also compress them to save hdd space

> 
> I have read most anything I could find on the subject,but like most 
> things on the Internet most of the information is pretty dated....
> 
> Thanks
> 
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