[mythtv-users] mythtranscode: am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug?

Misty P mistyp at thekorn.net
Wed Jan 21 17:39:41 UTC 2009


Ray Parrish wrote:
>> I've been cleaning space off my myth backend, by making cutlists and
>> deleting commercials off of old recordings. I had successfully
>> processed a number of recordings, until I hit a problem transcoding
>> a specific recording. That recording gave a transcode error 255
>> (which doesn't seem to be defined anywhere).
>
> This may seem like a simple thing, but make sure you have actually
> configured the autodetect transcoder profile. Out of the box, it is
> not automatically configured for lossless transcode. I ran into the
> same problem after rebuilding my system from scratch a few months ago.
> I simply forgot to configure the profiles.
>
> It is possible that you configured the autodetect profile for mpeg2
> but not the one for RTJpeg/Mpeg4. See if that helps your problem.

D'oh, score one for Ray!  That was exactly my problem; I had the autodetect 
profile set up for mpeg2, but not for rtjpeg/mpeg4.  I set it for lossless, 
and now it's happily chugging along.

THANKS!




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