[mythtv-users] transcode not working

[Raymond Wagner]

On 1/5/2012 09:18, Josh Rosenberg wrote:
> I'm attempting to transcode recordings for size.  (A 4 hour sports
> program in raw QAM is 68 GB, which seems excessive for long-term
> storage.)  When I tell the frontend to transcode a recording (using,
> for example, medium quality), it apparently fails; nothing happens at
> all.

You've got something seriously funky going on there.  That _really_is_ 
raw QAM, all 38.4Mbps of it.  A typical HD recording should be closer to 
16Mbps, or maybe 25-30GB for the whole 4-hr recording.