[mythtv-users] How to enable manual transcode?

[J. Donavan Stanley]

malcolms wrote:

>So anyhow back to  my problem.  While watching a recording I hit "menu" and 
>the second option down is "begin transcoding".  I select that and it then 
>changes to "stop recording" like it's now transcoding.  I left it for over 
>24hours on a 1 hour recording and nothing happened.  If I go back and select 
>stop transcoding it says "stopping transcoding" yet the menu never changes 
>from having an option of "stop transcoding" like it's stuck in that state.
>  
>

And what does it say in the logfile for your backend?