[mythtv-users] What happened to my auto-transcode?

[Jim Stichnoth]

On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Jim Stichnoth <stichnot at gmail.com> wrote:

> This has happened to me twice so far.  I set up a recording rule for some
> show for my kid, keeping only the most recent 5 episodes.  My kid ends up
> liking the show, so I remove the 5-episode restriction and enable
> auto-transcode to mpeg-4.  But the auto-transcode never happens -- I have to
> do it manually each time.  Mythweb shows all the settings of the recording
> rule as they should be.  (I use mythweb for all recording rule
> manipulation.)  If I enable auto-transcode when I'm first creating the
> recording rule, everything is fine.  The backend log shows no errors, in
> fact nothing at all shows up in the log about transcoding until I start it
> manually.
>
> I thought maybe changing the job config for the recording rule would only
> affect newly scheduled recordings, but 2 weeks later (i.e. completely new
> Schedules Direct data) the same thing is still happening.
>
> Has anyone seen this problem?  Is there anything I can do in mythweb or the
> UI to get the auto-transcode to happen, short of deleting and recreating the
> recording rule?
>
> (This is 0.21 from MythDora 5.)
>
> Jim
>

Finally figured this out.  I didn't have the HDHR tuners configured to allow
auto-transcode, though I did have it set for the PVR-150.

Jim
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