In 1.18.1: I'm having problems transcoding. I've got an MBE/SBE setup with several 250's in the BE and one 350 in the SBE/FE. Commflagging is set to begin immediately upon episode start. I've been trying to see how I like MPEG4 transcoding from the MPEG2 being produced by the 250's, but I can't seem to get the transcoder to run at all.
I changed the Default recording group to "automatically transcode after recording", changed it to 720x480 from the default 480x480, and left everything else alone (including "MPEG-2 PS"; what are the definitions of the various types in this field, and which should I be using?). If I schedule a recording, it -appears- (from the mythweb status page) that transcoding starts -immediately-, e.g., even before commflagging is finished, even though I don't have "transcode before commflagging" checked. The status page also says "Errored" about the transcoding job, but I can't figure out where any of this might really be logged (not in mythweb, and not in any logs I can find), so I can't debug -why- it's "errored". Also, according to mythweb, the transcoder ran on the SBE, even though the commflagger ran on the MBE. This is okayh with me (especially since I can't seem to get the commflagging to loadbalance; that'll be my next mesage), but only if the transcoder actually -works-. But is the transcoder running on the SBE somehow contributing to the problem? (Note that the SBE and MBE share the same recordings directory via NFS.) [FWIW, I also have the button checked to preserve the original recordings after transcoding, since I'd like to A/B compare them.] I then tried going to the Transcoder->From MPEG2 menu item, changed its resolution, and left everything else alone. (It looks like various checkboxes for things like interlacing & so forth should probably get set, but I haven't touched them for the moment until I can see -anything- from transcoding.) It didn't change the behavior. Again, which of these am I -supposed- to be setting---the one in the various recording profiles, or the ones in the Transcoders group? The doc on this is -very- thin on the ground, and it's totally obscured by zillions of random google hits about transcoding that aren't helping. Thanks...
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