[mythtv-users] How can I start a lossless transcode from mythweb

[Greg]

On 03/05/2011 07:18 PM, Anthony Giggins wrote:
> On 06/03/2011, at 12:48 AM, Greg<greg12866 at nycap.rr.com>  wrote:
>
>> On 03/05/2011 06:56 AM, Anthony Giggins wrote:
>>> On 27/02/2011, at 11:59 PM, "Michael T. Dean"<mtdean at thirdcontact.com>   wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 02/27/2011 05:29 AM, Anthony Giggins wrote:
>>>>> How can I start a lossless transcode from mythweb?
>>>>>
>>>>> If I select transcode I dont get any options which profile to use so I
>>>>> assume it would use the Default profile but every transcode I've tried
>>>>> from mythweb fails. I've currently got the High Quality Profile set to
>>>>> lossless and that works great when running it from the frontend, would
>>>>> setting my default profile to lossless fix this or should I look at
>>>>> running a user job?
>>>> I don't know much about transcoding, but I /think/ that whichever
>>>> profile (Default, High Quality, Low Quality or Live TV) you set as
>>>> "Autodetect from MPEG-2" (assuming an MPEG-2 source recording) is the
>>>> one that's used when a transcode is triggered from MythWeb or started
>>>> using X in TV Playback (versus selecting the job specifics in Watch
>>>> Recordings).  So just set up High Quality as your autodetect profile.
>>>>
>>>> Mike
>>>> ______________________________
>>> Thanks for that after finding the default transcoder under 'TV Settings' | 'General' it should be all good I'll write something up in the wiki
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Anthony
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>> I don't think I fully understand transcoding.. I've tried it out in the
>> past. I was just being curious as to what it does. I have a few questions:
>> 1. When you transcode does it remove the commercials if it finds a cut
>> list?
> Yes
>
>> 2. Does it save the recording it to a different location and preserve
>> the original?
> Depending how you've setup your transcoding profiles it can do that
>
>> 3. Just what does a lossless transcode do?
> Losses will remove any cuts without loss of quality, depending on you transcoding profiles you can also compress them to save hdd space
>
>> I have read most anything I could find on the subject,but like most
>> things on the Internet most of the information is pretty dated....
>>
>> Thanks
>>
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Anthony,
         Thanks for the reply...You answered my questions..Now, I need 
to figure it all out...My only reason for transcoding is, I have a few 
tv series recordings I would like to preserve...I could archive them 
with the commercials,but I would rather not..
Thanks again...