[mythtv-users] mythtranscode: am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug?

[John Pilkington]

Misty P wrote:
> Ray Parrish wrote:
>>> I've been cleaning space off my myth backend, by making cutlists and
>>> deleting commercials off of old recordings. I had successfully
>>> processed a number of recordings, until I hit a problem transcoding
>>> a specific recording. That recording gave a transcode error 255
>>> (which doesn't seem to be defined anywhere).
>>
>> This may seem like a simple thing, but make sure you have actually
>> configured the autodetect transcoder profile. Out of the box, it is
>> not automatically configured for lossless transcode. I ran into the
>> same problem after rebuilding my system from scratch a few months ago.
>> I simply forgot to configure the profiles.
>>
>> It is possible that you configured the autodetect profile for mpeg2
>> but not the one for RTJpeg/Mpeg4. See if that helps your problem.
> 
> D'oh, score one for Ray!  That was exactly my problem; I had the 
> autodetect profile set up for mpeg2, but not for rtjpeg/mpeg4.  I set it 
> for lossless, and now it's happily chugging along.
> 
> THANKS!
> 
Glad the simple route worked: so the ones that had gone through before 
were from a different tuner?

John P