[mythtv-users] How to force a transcode?

Paul V. Gratz pgratz at gratz1.com
Tue Apr 11 21:31:00 UTC 2006


On Tuesday 11 April 2006 02:55 pm, Braindead wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 20:47:24 +0100
> Andy Burns <fedora at adslpipe.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > 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.

(hijacking the current discussion :-) ) Does anyone know of a way to
automate this?  Ideally I'd like to go through and select for
transcoding all episodes of certain programs in one swoop instead of
doing in episode by episode.

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