[mythtv-users] A Pair of Feature Requests (long)...

[Seth Lake]

> > one of the main things i do with mythtv is record shows for my 3 year
> > old son, mostly sponge bob square pants.  these shows, being all fairly
> > simple animation, don't require much bandwidth at all to look good.
> > transcoding them to an ~800 mpg4 stream seems to be more than adequate
> > to make my boy happy.  on the other hand, stuff that my wife wants me to
> > grab is all larger bandwidth stuff, but we only intend to watch it once
> > then delete it for the most part, i don't care to transcode it at all
> > since would be a waste of time and not look very good at ~800.  it would
> > be nice if mythtv had the option, when you set the box to record, of
> > auto-transcoding per record setting instead of as a global flag...and to
> > take it a step further, auto-transcoding to a particular set of
settings.
>
> I don't think you need to transcode anything to accomplish
> what you describe. MythTV 0.12 has "Recording Profiles" that
> control the parameters for different types of cards including
> the ivtv driver. You can specify the parameters for "Default",
> "Live TV", "High Quality" and "Low Quality". On the advanced
> options page for any show, you can choose which profile to use
> for that show.

sorry, should have been more specific...

my TV capture card is a hauppage pvr-250.  for some programs, i.e. sponge
bob, i would like to transcode the captured mpeg2 to an mpeg4 to save space.
i _could_ turn down the capture bandwitdth and use a low setting, but a real
low bandwidth mpeg2 is pretty bad, were a low bandwidth mpeg4 is not too
bad.  OTOH, with the record, watch once and delete files i would capture to
a hi-quality mpeg2 and not bother with transcoding.

the way it is now, i think, the only automatic transcoding option is a
global one, right?