[mythtv-users] recordinng profile based on channel

[Kris B.]

On Wed, Jul 31, 2013, at 01:17 PM, Larry Roberts wrote:
> So I may be mistaking what is actually going on.  yes I do normally just 
> watch and then delete them.  For a select few I have a separate 
> auto-transcode job that converts the files to a more common name and 
> also makes them "roku" compatible.  If also moves them to a directory 
> that Roku can watch.  I think I have the ffmpeg setup converted 
> correctly for that piece so now I just want to make sure I have the HD 
> being recorded/transcoded/saved (or whatever the proper term may be) to 
> the best they can be for watching via the web/frontend.  I may be 
> bringing in knowledge artifacts from my PVR-350 days when you could tell 
> what quality to save.  Its the old I dont know what I dont know so I'm 
> trying to think of all the things I could need to change going from SD 
> to HD.
> 
>

Larry, I have a roku and the mythroku channel as well -  The TV's that
are hooked up to the roku, are they huge (in size)?  Have you tried a
480p transcode to see if they are good enough - that would be a good
trade off.  Also, you could just make two user jobs, one for HD and one
for SD and do it per show (I dont encode every show for my rokus, just
ones I want available).  You could also do and if clause in your shell
script that could scan the resolution and then encode based off of that. 

Easiest would be just choose per show which transcode to use... for
example, cartoon reruns dont need to be HD for the most part, ever.  So
run user job 1 that transcodes into SD.  

Another example - I have two encode/user jobs - one does auto cut of
commericals, the other doesn't.  If the show can handle it - I do a hard
cut of commericals - other shows I don't.

Oh, and I have found the commandline handbrake works better that ffmpeg,
especially with autocropping, etc. for these types of transcodes that
just happen behind the scenes.

-- 
  Kris B.
  krisbee at krisbee.com