[mythtv-users] A Pair of Feature Requests (long)...

Ian Forde ian at duckland.org
Sun Nov 23 14:34:41 EST 2003


On Sun, 2003-11-23 at 10:24, Seth Lake wrote:
> one of the main things i do with mythtv is record shows for my 3 year
> old son, mostly sponge bob square pants.  these shows, being all
> fairly simple animation, don't require much bandwidth at all to look
> good.  transcoding them to an ~800 mpg4 stream seems to be more than
> adequate to make my boy happy.  on the other hand, stuff that my wife
> wants me to grab is all larger bandwidth stuff, but we only intend to
> watch it once then delete it for the most part, i don't care to
> transcode it at all since would be a waste of time and not look very
> good at ~800.  it would be nice if mythtv had the option, when you set
> the box to record, of auto-transcoding per record setting instead of
> as a global flag...and to take it a step further, auto-transcoding to
> a particular set of settings.

There is.  Just create a new recording profile and set it to not
transcode.  Record SpongeBob with that profile and you get the desired
result...

	-I

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