[mythtv-users] Transcode Question

[Michael T. Dean]

On 02/12/2006 09:32 PM, Munroe Sollog wrote:
> I have a dozen or so recordings all are the .nuv.  When I play the
> recordings they are commercial flagged because I can press "z" and
> skip all the commercials.  they are taking up a large amound of space.
>  I have tried whiled in the media library hitting the right arrow and
> selecting "Begin Transcoding"  it seems to finish I only say that
> because for a while that same option becomes "Stop Transcoding".
> However it doesn't seem to do anything.

e z (fix cutpoints and x to transcode and remove the commercials)

See: http://mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-11.html#ss11.1

>   There is a directory
> /mythtv/pretty but in that dir is all of my recorded shows in .mpg but
> they are just symlinks to the .nuv, not actual files. 

These are the links created by mythlink.sh and have nothing to do with 
transcoding.  (BTW, mythlink.sh becomes mythrename.pl in 0.19, so don't 
spend a lot of time trying to learn it.  ;)

Mike