[mythtv-users] Cannot transcode H.264 recording

[Yianni]

> Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 17:06:45 -0600 
> From: frankalso at gmail.com 
> To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org 
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Cannot transcode H.264 recording 

> Where it says "H.264" for "Unknown video codec": that is the video  
> codec setting in your recording profile. I'm guessing it needs to be  
> "MPEG-4". 
>  

Spot on, Frank. I was trying to perform a lossless transcode, but it's not supported for .264. I created a new mpeg-4 transcoding profile and it's already transcoding. Can anyone remember if it's possible to run transcoding jobs on a specific backend?

Thanks again,

Yianni.