[mythtv-users] Transcoding not working

[Dan Wilga]

At 4:50 PM -0600 11/10/06, Robert Kulagowski wrote:
>Did you go in and configure your transcode profiles first?  I think 
>this is fixed in SVN (or at least kicks out an error message)

I am using SVN 11678 and have a similar problem. I have only tried it 
with things that are already in MPEG4 (already transcoded once from 
MPEG2). I have the "Autodetect from RTjpeg/MPEG4" profile set to do 
lossless transcoding, but both Autodetect and Default give me the 
same "bad codec" error others are seeing.

Oddly, when I tell Myth to start transcoding, it doesn't allow me to 
select "Autodetect from RTjpeg/MPEG4". But if I can transcode 
manually from the commandline by supplying this profile's ID. Here's 
a script I wrote to do just that:

#! /bin/sh
mythtranscode --infile $1 --outfile $1.tmp -p 21 -l && df $1.tmp && 
ls -l $1.tmp && mv -i $1.tmp $1

On a related question: Is there some way to configure things so that 
any cut list present will be applied to the recording during the 
automatic MPEG2->4 transcode? I want to reduce quality and apply the 
cuts at the same time, rather than two separate transcodes.
-- 
Dan Wilga                                                        "Ook."