[mythtv-users] Transcoding settings for DVB source

David Whyte david.whyte at gmail.com
Sat Jan 29 09:29:52 EST 2005


Hey Andy,

How exactly do you configure which format to transcode to?  Is it
merely a case of Myth knowing which format it is going to encode from
(in my DVB-T case, it is MPEG2) and therefore, you don't actually
assign a recording profile option anywhere, you just configure the
MPEG2 entry in Setup > TV Playback > Recording Profiles?

I have never really understood it and never gotten it to work :(

Cheers,
Dave


On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 21:43:34 +0000, Andy Whitworth <andywhit at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've just edited commercials out of a DVB sourced program and the resultant
> transcoded file size was about 3x the original!!  So I looked at my transcoding
> settings and changed the target coded to MPEG4 from RTjpeg.  This results
> in smaller file sizes i.e. less than the original rather than more :-)
> BUT, the transcoded program seems to have "forgotten" that it's a widescreen
> program and starts playing in 4:3 format.  If I change the ratio to
> 16:9 manually
> then it looks fine *but* I have to manually switch aspect ratio whereas the
> pre-transcoded original would automatically detect and switch to 16:9.
> 
> Is there anything I can do to set transcoding to preserve the automatic
> widescreen detection ?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Andy.
> 
> 
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