[mythtv-users] How to force a transcode?

Braindead Braindead at diablops.com
Tue Apr 11 19:55:00 UTC 2006


On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 20:47:24 +0100
Andy Burns <fedora at adslpipe.co.uk> wrote:

> I've got myth up an running nicely, with twin DVB-T tuners, I'm not 
> transcoding to a lower quality immediately after recording, the 
> commercial detection jobs run ok, I can view and edit the cutlist,
> and I can start the transcode jobto make the cuts take effect, so far
> so good.
> 
> Sometimes I decide I would like to hang onto a recording, so I cancel 
> the auto-expire, I assume there is some way to force a transcode to a 
> lower quality codec to save disk space, I've had a look in the wiki
> and mailing list archives but no joy, I get the feeling this is to to
> with RecordingGroups or PlaybackGroups but those concepts seem a
> little vague within the frontend, have I messad an obvious way to do
> this?

If you play the recording and press the 'X' key (at least in the default keymappings), It'll queue up the recording for transcoding (pressing 'X' again will cancel it).  I believe it uses the default transcoding profile, but not sure.  


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