I am sure this is covered somewhere but I couldn't find what I need in the wiki or the archives. I simply have some shows that I want to transcode to xvid to save space. I want them to remain with my normal MythTV recordings, not in MythVideo. I want to be able to check out the transcoded version to make sure it is correct and good quality before the original is removed. If everything is OK then I want to replace the original with the transcoded version. <br>
<br>When I used the built in transcoder in the past it did mostly what I want, but it imediately replaced the original and I got burned a few times with poor quality or wrong commercial cuts. I prefer nuvexport because it leaves my original alone. Also my backend is running on some old hardware and nuvexport (ie ffmpeg) seems to run much faster. However, I am not aware of any automatic or simple way of replacing my original file with the transcoded one. Is there a simple way doing this, so I can use an xvid avi file from nuvexport and have it in my normal mythtv recordings with all of the correct metadata? Or is there something I missed about the built in transcoder that would allow me to accomplish what I want?<br>