[mythtv-users] how does transcoding work?

[Isaac Richards]

On Monday 16 June 2003 10:32 am, Aaron Frerichs wrote:
> I just installed MythTV 0.9 from the Debian packages
> and I was wondering how to get transcoding to work.  I
> would like to get some high-quality shows by using
> RTJPEG to capture and then transcoding to MPEG4 later.
>  I set MaxTranscoders to 1 and then made different
> recording profiles for Default and Transcode.
>
> I must be missing something, because after the
> recording completed, nothing happened.  I thought that
> the transcoding would begin immediately after the
> recording was complete.  I even waited overnight, but
> when I check this morning, still nothing.  Anybody
> care to give a brief explanation of how it works?

The automatic transcoding is not enabled yet.

Isaac