[mythtv-users] auto-transcode jobs not getting queued

[Noah Beck]

Replying to myself, after some better googling I found that one must enable
auto-transcode in the recording profile, and when I checked I did not have
that enabled.

Noah

On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 10:53 PM, Noah Beck <noah.b.beck at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm using mythtv-0.27.5-2 on a Fedora Core 22 install. I've recently
> obtained an hdhomerun, but it's not the model that transcodes to h.264.
> After looking at file sizes, I realized I do want things transcoded to
> h.264, so I developed a perl script to call ffmpeg to do the transcoding.
> I have it set up to run instead of the default "mythtranscode" job rather
> than as one of the four user jobs,
>
> This all works fine when I use mythWeb to select an already-recorded
> program, and hit the "transcode" button that appears there.  I see the job
> get queued, I see it running, and I see successful completion of the job.
> I can select multiple already-recorded programs, and I see them go into the
> job queue and complete one at a time (since I have the limit set to 1 job
> at a time on the backend).  But if I check the "Auto-transcode" option in a
> recording schedule on MythWeb, no job gets queued when a recording
> finishes.  Checking the corresponding boxes for metadata lookup or
> commercial flagging seems to queue up those jobs with no problem.
>
> Any thoughts as to what might cause the transcode job not to get added to
> the job queue when auto-transcode is set for a recording schedule?
>
> Noah
>
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