[mythtv-users] Cannot transcode H.264 recording

[Frank Phillips]

On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 6:27 AM, Yianni <yiannividalis at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, everyone.
>
> DVB-T just arrived in my area and I tested lossless transcoding, but it
> fails with:
>
> Nov
>  22 13:50:22 al2kpro.volara.net mythtranscode[13741]:
> mythtranscode[13741]: C thread_unknown mythcommandlineparser.cpp:2597
> (ConfigureLogging) Qt version: compile: 4.8.6, runtime: 4.8.6
> Nov 22
> 13:50:22 al2kpro.volara.net mythtranscode[13741]: mythtranscode[13741]: N
>  thread_unknown mythcommandlineparser.cpp:2599 (ConfigureLogging)
> Enabled verbose msgs:  general
> Nov 22 13:50:23 al2kpro.volara.net
> mythtranscode[13741]: mythtranscode[13741]: E CoreContext
> transcode.cpp:788 (TranscodeFile) Unknown video codec: H.264
> Nov 22
> 13:50:23 al2kpro.volara.net mythtranscode[13741]: mythtranscode[13741]: E
>  CoreContext main.cpp:724 (main) Transcoding
> /myth/disk2/tval2kpro/2011_20141121211000.mpg failed
>
>
> <snip>


>
> Is it a mythtv limitation or am I missing some setting?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Yianni.
>

Where it says "H.264" for "Unknown video codec": that is the video codec
setting in your recording profile. I'm guessing it needs to be "MPEG-4".
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