[mythtv-users] Auto transcode not working

[Joe Ripley]

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Blammo <blammo.doh at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 8:09 AM,  <karl at mouse-hole.com> wrote:
>> ..... However, although I select Auto transcode in the recording options in mythweb, it doesn't do it....
>
> I'm  in the same boat. I've set auto-transcode both from mythweb, and
> from the MythFrontend, and it doesn't do it. Actually ran out of space
> this weekend while I was gone, so it would have been nice to shrink
> some of those 6.5gb 1hr episodes to 1.1gb like happens when I manually
> queue it.

You need to set up your recording profile parameters.

Go to:

Utilities/Setup -> Setup -> TV Settings -> Recording Profiles -> MPEG-2 Encoders
(or similar)

Make sure that all of your hardware encoders have the 'Enable
auto-transcode after recording' enabled.

-- 
Joe Ripley
vitaminjoe at gmail.com