[mythtv-users] which transcoder with playlists?

[Michael T. Dean]

On 01/21/2014 12:15 PM, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-01-21 at 11:33 -0500, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>> The default transcoder is the one you specified in the recording rule
>> used to record the show.
> And is that the one that is used when transcoding recording by way of a
> playlist?

TTBOMK, yes.

> Is there any reason that playlist transcoding option doesn't have the
> "which transcoding profile" option like the single recording transcoding
> menu does?
>
> The use case is that one might generally want, say, the lossless
> transcoder as the default for a given program, but in the interests of
> resolving an occasional temporary space crunch one might want to use the
> MPEG4 transcoder on a list of recordings.

Probably either a) no one has needed (and coded) the feature or b) in 
the interest of simplifying the Playlist Options menu choices (or both).

Mike