Looking through the archives I've found that it's possible top set up MPEG2 to MPEG2 automatic transcoding by issuing the following update command in mysql:
update recordingprofiles set videocodec = "MPEG-2" where name = "MPEG2"; I want to give this a go because I want to keep my recordings in MPEG2 format but want to reduce the size of the recordings. I can't adjust the original recording profile because I'm using DVB-T capture cards which don't encode, they just dump the broadcast MPEG2 stream straight to disk. So I figure I can reduce the size of them by transcoding to a lower bit rate MPEG2 file. I need them in MPEG2 format to work on my xbmcmythtv python scripts frontend. The question is - has anyone tried this, and what were your results? I read a post that said the reason you have to enable it via a mysql command is because it can be a bit dodgy which is why it's not turned on by default. Should I expect that it's going to play up quite badly and defrost my freezer overnight, or will it be OK? Regards, Phill _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
