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On Friday 17 June 2005 10:28, Robert Tsai wrote: > On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 10:13:07AM -0400, Joseph A. Caputo wrote: > > On Friday 17 June 2005 0:56, Sasha Z wrote: > > [Sasha Z wrote some stuff about undoubtedly important things, but > Joseph cleverly hijacked the thread into a detour for his own > nefarious purposes :).] Heh. Well, not *entirely* nefarious... I did manage to relate things back to the seeking issue eventually :-) > > I've also been having problems with auto-transcoding. I know some > > changes went in recently, but I thought I'd addressed them by > > tweaking the appropriate settings. Basically, what I'm seeing is > > that any newly scheduled recordings are not auto-transcoding (even > > though I've checked and re-checked every setting relating to > > auto-transcode both in the UI *and* the database itself. All of my > > recordings have 'autotranscode' = 1 and 'transcoder' = 0 in the > > 'record' table, yet it seems like only my 'old' scheduled recordings > > are being transcoded. > > Assuming you're running some recent vintage of CVS, make sure that: > > - Auto-transcode is enabled in each recording schedule (it > sounds like you've done this). Done. > > - Auto-transcode is enabled in the Recording Profile for the > desired capture cards (less obvious). Be sure to go all the > way through the UI to click "Finish". Done. > Both need to be enabled for auto-transcode to occur. The idea is that > you may want to transcode stuff recorded off your pcHDTV card to save > disk space, but don't need to transcode stuff recorded off your PVR > card which has already encoded something down to some acceptably-low > bitrate. > > Having said that, I also experienced recent problems getting > auto-transcode to work for new schedules. I ended up just going > through a few cycles of going through the UI and restarting > mythbackend until auto-transcode started working. I didn't restart the backend, as I figured the changes would be read from the DB when the recording was actually started, but I'm restarting it now; we'll see... -JAC |
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