[mythtv-users] Transcode

[Dewey Smolka]

On 12/23/06, Matthew Asplund <mattasplund at gmail.com> wrote:
> Here is the log file for a sample job
>
> 2006-12-23 08:18:58.694 JobQueue: Transcode Starting for The Simpsons
<snip>
> 2006-12-23 08:19:02.641 AFD: Opened codec 0x812b5e0, id(MP2) type(Audio)
> 2006-12-23 08:19:03.064 Unknown video codec:
> 2006-12-23 08:19:03.070 Transcoding
> /home/data/mythtv/1011_20061221180000.mpg failed

Your problem is most likely that you don't have your transcode
profiles properly set up.

You can find your current transcode profile settings by running the SQL command:
mysql> select r.* from recordingprofiles r,profilegroups p where
p.name='Transcoders' and p.id=r.profilegroup;

This should give you something that looks like this:
+----+----------------+------------+------------+--------------+
 | id | name           | videocodec | audiocodec | profilegroup |
 +----+----------------+------------+------------+--------------+
 | 21 | RTjpeg/MPEG4   | MPEG-4     | MP3        |            6 |
 | 22 | MPEG2          | MPEG-4     | MP3        |            6 |
 | 27 | High Quality   | MPEG-4     | MP3        |            6 |
 | 28 | Medium Quality | MPEG-4     | MP3        |            6 |
 | 29 | Low Quality    | MPEG-4     | MP3        |            6 |
 +----+----------------+------------+------------+--------------+
 5 rows in set (0.01 sec)


You need to set up your transcode profiles by going to Utilities/Setup -> Setup
-> TV Settings -> Recording Profiles -> Transcoders.

For example, I use a PVR-250, so as a default I use the Autodetect
from MPEG2 profile. The default settings should work fine.

You also need to set the default transcoder in: Utilities/Setup ->
Setup - TV Settings -> General (page 3 or so).