[mythtv-users] MPEG-4 Simple@L3 and MPEG2 to MPEG-4 AVCH.264transcoding

[Mike Grusin]

> > > I am using two Plextor MPEG-4 hardware boxes connected to my cable TV
> > > set top boxes. The first problem I have is that if I go into Recording
> > > Profiles and select USB MPEG-4 Encoder and edit the bit rate
> and save the
> > > recordings still look the same and take up same amount of
> space. It does
> > > not matter if I have it set to 100 kbps or 8000 (looks like
> it is using
> > > 2200Kbps for everything).
> >
> > I'm a newbie and may be very wrong here, but I noticed the same thing
> > (changing profiles doesn't change subsequent output).  However,
> when I quit
> > and restart mythtv, THEN the changes seem to take effect.
>
> Thanks, I will give that a try, any idea on how to transcode to H.264?

Sorry, just MPEG2 and 4 here.  Hopefully someone else can get you going.

Good luck! -MG.