[mythtv-users] transcoding shows after recording

[J. Donavan Stanley]

Mitko Haralanov wrote:

>I am really confused about the Recording profile settings. What I would
>like to achieve is record a show and then transcode it tp MPEG4 after it
>has been recorded.
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The transcoder profiles refer to your SOURCE format, so you'd want to 
work with the MPEG2 profiles and set them to transcode to MPEG4 in the 
codec section.

>I am not sure what the settings should be to get the desired result.
>According to the documentation on the myth website, the "Transcoders"
>profiles are used if there are not hardware encoders in the system.
>However, I do have two PVR-250s so I am concentrating on the "MPEG-2
>Encoders" profiles. I think I have the bit rates set to reasonable
>settings however, I still end up with 12G files for 30min shows.
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What bit rates are you using to get that large of file and how big is 
your original file?  MPEG4 can use much lower rates.

>The other confusion is about the "Automatically transcode after
>recording" option. Does that mean that the show will be transcoded after
>it has been recorded (as supposed to while it is being recorded) or
>whether it will transcoded at all.
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It means what it says...

Automatically transcode  (as opposed to manually transcode) after 
recording (as opposed to before or during recording).  Chances are, you 
don't want this unless you want to transcode the commercials as well.