<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On 2013-07-02, at 3:30 PM, Chris Porter wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">You need to setup a user job for transcoding and removing commercials. the user job would use mythtranscode.<br></span></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>That’s probably the smart way but there’s also an arcane feature where you can tell it to do lossless transcoding when fed an mpeg2 file.</div><div><br></div><div>In mythtv-setup:</div><div><br></div><div>- head to option 3 recording profiles</div><div>- down to transcoders</div><div>- Autodetect from MPEG2</div><div>- enable the “Lossless Transcoding” option</div><div><br></div><div>I have that active and queue a “Default transcode” after editing and the right thing happens which is handy although I’m tempted to say it’s like you’re messing with the taint of mythtv. Ugh.</div><div><br></div><div>Also I’m running out of slots for user jobs.</div><br><div>- George</div></body></html>