[mythtv-users] Help wit recording profiles WTF am I doing wrong?

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Thursday 29 July 2004 15:33, Michael J. Lynch wrote:
>     Hi all.  I'm having a bit of a problem I'm hoping someone can
> help me with.
>
>     My system consists of, Redhat Fedora Core 2 on a 733 Mhz Pentium
> III with 256MB memory and a bttv (haugpauge) card.  I just installed
> RHC2 and MythTV a couple of days ago using Jarod's HOWTO.  Everything
> went very smoothly and seems to work, but I'm having trouble with my
> recording profiles.  After installing everything, I recorded an hour
> long show and found that the file (.nuv) produced was ~4GBytes in
> length.  So I figured I would change the encoder for the "Default"
> Software encoder from the RTJpeg encoder to an MPEG4 encoder.  Then I
> tried the record operation again, and once again the file was ~4GB in
> size.
>
>     To verify that I was changing the correct recording profile, I
> went back to the RTJpeg encoder, changed the resolution (down), and
> set the quality to a ridiculously (20) small value.  And, of course,
> the quality sucked and was barely viewable, but it did verify that I
> was mucking with the correct profile.
>
>     After verifying that I was mucking around with the correct
> profile, I changed it back to use the MPEG4 encoder, and set the
> bitrate to a ridiculously low value (200) and then tried to record. 
> Same huge 4G file produced.  It almost seems like the RTJpeg encoder
> with it's default install values is being used rather than the MPEG4
> encoder.
>
>     So...can any tell me what I may be doing incorrectly?  Is there
> any way to verify (at recording time) which encoder is actually be
> used? Did I totally miss something?

Well, if your default profile is somehow screwed up, it will fall back 
to the default codec, which is RTjpeg.  Your recording profiles should 
look like this (at a minimum):

Recording groups:

	Software Encoders (v4l based):
		Default
		LiveTV
		High Quality
		Low Quality

	Transcoders:
		Default
		LiveTV
		High Quality
		Low Quality

You should be changing the "Software Encoders (v4l based) -> Default" 
profile.

-JAC