[mythtv-users] CLI Mythtranscode: How do I select Low Quality profile?

Robert Tsai mythtv at tsaiberspace.net
Fri Oct 6 17:56:26 UTC 2006


On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 10:41:18AM -0400, Jeff volckaert wrote:
> On 10/6/06, Jeff volckaert <jvolckaert at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm trying to create a user job script to transcode a show to an AVI
> > format for my PocketPC.  I setup the Low Quality transcoder to do
> > 320x240 300K mpeg4.  How do I tell Mythtranscode from the CLI to use
> > this?  I checked mythtranscode --help and I think I need the profile
> > number, but how do I know which number is Low Quality?
>
> After some testing I was able to get it to run using "-p='Low Quality'
> ", but it outputs a 965M file when it should be about a 70M file.

The 'p' argument must be a number, not a profile name. Easiest thing
to do is to launch a transcode via mythfrontend, and run "ps" to see
what the command-line arguments are.

If you are comfortable mucking around in SQL, check out the
"profilegroups" and "recordingprofiles" tables.

--Rob


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