[mythtv-users] now: low quality transcode

[John Pilkington]

On 24/12/13 01:13, A. F. Cano wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 11:20:09AM +0000, John Pilkington wrote:
>> ...
>> <snip>
>>
>> If you still need this capability it looks as if this might be a
>> good place to start.  Someone may have an updated version?
>>
>> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Low_Quality_Transcode

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/User_Jobs

and I suggest that initially you need to get it to use

mythffmpeg -i infile.mpg -target ntsc-dvd  outfile.mpg

HTH

>>> John
>
> Thanks.  That looks promising, but where is this script supposed to go
> so that mythtv can use it?  It seems that there should be some script
> to do this in the default distribution, in response to menu->job options
> ->begin transcoding->low quality, but find / -name transcode_low.py
> returns nothing.  Is there some place where the code for these job
> options reside? There doesn't seem to be a proper place in
> /usr/share/mythtv/*, /usr/lib/mythtv is for *.so libraries and
> /etc/mythtv has the expected config files.  Or is this transcoding
> done from executable code that calls mythffmpeg directly?


>
> The setup: Myth 0.26.1+fixes20 from deb-multimedia on Debian wheezy.
> I also have myth-transcode of the same version installed.  Probably
> a package dependency.
>
> Also, please please please!  How do I disable mythfilldatabase? It keeps
> trying to contact schedules direct and getting errors, of course.  I
> have set "use EIT only" in the relevant config menu, but that is
> obviously not sufficient.
>
> Thanks, and sorry for being such a mythtv ignoramus, but I'm learning...
>
> Augustine
>