| pcluser | Hello, I want to use the transcoding features of mythtv. After a recording, I can edit out commercials, then it gives me a menu to transcode low, medium, high. | 02:22 |
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| pcluser | I know haow to use handbrake or womble stuff to work with my videos manually. | 02:23 |
| pcluser | I want to know how to set up the mythtv gui to allow a wife to do it. | 02:23 |
| pcluser | I am ok with linux cli (PCLinuxOS advocate), I dare you to make it wife usable. (She uses pclos, and is not afraid of gui's but cli is out of range at the moment for her). | 02:25 |
| pcluser | The backend setup menu has places to put stuff, but the wiki and docs don't show much. As I type, I'm trying things, but they fail. Thanks.. I am logging this window, but will check in often. | 02:26 |
| pcluser | A drunken monky procedure would be nice, but just point me to urls is ok. | 02:27 |
| * pcluser listens | 02:28 | |
| pcluser | hello | 03:47 |
| === pcluser is now known as pcluser_afk | ||
| bkelly | pcluser, there's a transcode button in the mythweb interface | 03:59 |
| pcluser_afk | hi bkelly | 04:03 |
| bkelly | hi | 04:03 |
| bkelly | BTW, I am new to mythbuntu ... only converted over from mythdora a few months back | 04:04 |
| pcluser_afk | after you edit, there is a choice to transcode... also a bug or something when I re-installed a problem where the "transcode" hung, it said to at least check the lossless box. I want to set up the 3 transcode options in the menu, I can be clearer, bear with me. | 04:06 |
| pcluser_afk | Wow, I still have scars from mythdora, my first myth attemt in '03.. not their fault, we need to bbe geekier there I think. | 04:07 |
| pcluser_afk | bkelly, so you are saying do it from the web interface, not the menu on the gui? OK, I didn't know that, that is a good option. | 04:10 |
| bkelly | yea - i do pretty much everything from the web interface | 04:11 |
| bkelly | i just find it easier and faster and almost always have a laptop or tablet in front of me anyway | 04:12 |
| pcluser_afk | so I can pick a recorded show, and choose the three quality options? does it edit the commercials too? | 04:12 |
| bkelly | last time i did it it removed them - as long as they were marked | 04:12 |
| pcluser_afk | wow | 04:12 |
| bkelly | mind you - haven't tried it since i upgraded to 0.25 | 04:12 |
| pcluser_afk | can you give me a dunken monkey procedure, and why isn't this in the wiki? | 04:13 |
| pcluser_afk | *drunken | 04:13 |
| bkelly | lol - not sure re wiki - i guess us as users need to go write more stuff there more often :-) | 04:14 |
| bkelly | so u want step by step procedure that's not going to scare your wife? | 04:14 |
| pcluser_afk | actually just tell me how to do it on mythweb | 04:15 |
| pcluser_afk | and i will be all over you like a loose suit to tell you how t fix anything in your house with my 50yrs experience. | 04:16 |
| bkelly | lol - tks - there's a transcode button on the individual recording pages under Recorded Programs tab | 04:19 |
| bkelly | bugger - my myth box just fell over when i pressed it | 04:19 |
| pcluser_afk | but I think you have to set it up first... looking | 04:20 |
| pcluser_afk | yes, but they are not set up to any commands | 04:21 |
| pcluser_afk | For the bug, I set up transcode to lossless checkbox, at least it does not hang, but i want to transcode to other than regular quality. | 04:22 |
| bkelly | hmm | 04:23 |
| pcluser_afk | bkelly, it sounds you don't know more than I do, and I appreciate the help, don't pull your hair out. | 04:23 |
| pcluser_afk | nice you try to help here... | 04:24 |
| pcluser_afk | what do you use your mythtv for? | 04:24 |
| pcluser_afk | I love mine since '03, and use hdhomerun tuners. | 04:25 |
| bkelly | yea - i don;t - i did get this to work once before - will let u know next time i do get it to work | 04:26 |
| pcluser_afk | I copied my mythicDRAGON V1.0 BOX OVER TO A 20 DOLLAR YARD SALE BOX OF 3 YRS OLD | 04:26 |
| bkelly | i use mythtv as media centre for all TV's in the house | 04:27 |
| bkelly | videos, TV recordings & music | 04:27 |
| pcluser_afk | excuse the caps, i would be lost without mythtv for off-air channels. | 04:27 |
| bkelly | been using it for 5 years or so now - love it | 04:28 |
| bkelly | i haven't tried homerun tuners, just use standard hd terrestrial dvb | 04:29 |
| pcluser_afk | Apple tv of course would be 10% of the features we mythtv people know, and all the sheep will think it is the bee's knees. | 04:29 |
| bkelly | lol - yup, indeed | 04:29 |
| bkelly | i would like to use myth for iptv but my internet not yet fast enough | 04:30 |
| pcluser_afk | hdhr is great for me, linux lover here, but hdhr sees to set up ok on windows boxes, i sugggest looking for some on ebay, they just fell into myth stuff, where i lost hair on pchdtv products. | 04:31 |
| pcluser_afk | tell me ore about myth and iptv, you mean amazon or netflix, or just local lan video playing? | 04:32 |
| * pcluser_afk should correct typos | 04:34 | |
| === pcluser_afk is now known as pcluser | ||
| bkelly | yea - i only have linux - no windows for me :-) | 04:35 |
| pcluser | PCLinuxOS is my bag | 04:35 |
| bkelly | iptv is just tv broadcast over internet rather than RF - like shoutcast ... its coming | 04:35 |
| pcluser | but they messed up their repo on the latest livecd install disk | 04:36 |
| bkelly | i haven't tried that distro | 04:36 |
| bkelly | oh? | 04:36 |
| pcluser | yeah, a repeo setting | 04:36 |
| pcluser | should be kde rather than kde4 line in the adress or something | 04:37 |
| pcluser | if you d/l their latest livecd iso, it will not update from the repo | 04:38 |
| pcluser | other than that, it is a bulletproof tested os if you want your machine to run anyting important, I use it it at aq large observatory | 04:39 |
| bkelly | ok - will keep that in mind for my next server project | 04:40 |
| bkelly | deb or rpm based? | 04:40 |
| pcluser | stuff has to be proved first. Mythbuntu, like ubuntu likes t play with new things, I don't object to that, just keep it in mind. | 04:41 |
| pcluser | pclinuxos uses synaptic and rpm, but it think is looking into replacing synaptic. | 04:42 |
| pcluser | *I | 04:42 |
| pcluser | usually compared to or is thought from mandriva, but was forked loooong ago, totally it's own distro. | 04:43 |
| bkelly | ok | 04:45 |
| pcluser | they even play with mythtv, but my Dragon box was well running from 2003 till power failure, and I just put it in 20.00 yard sale box. | 04:46 |
| pcluser | I think ubuntu is 800 lb bully, but any linux is good linux in my book. | 04:46 |
| pcluser | and i trust it more than mac/wintel/ms folks | 04:47 |
| pcluser | have a imac here with cheap blown caps from college, apple wants 700. to fix | 04:48 |
| pcluser | I volunteer engineering at raio station, I hope i can get 200.00 to fix | 04:49 |
| pcluser | seeing I have a few thousand invested in bench equipment. | 04:50 |
| bkelly | wow - good luck | 04:51 |
| pcluser | so what do you get your video from? | 04:52 |
| pcluser | I mean tuner, or if off cable, or even isp like netkix | 04:54 |
| bkelly | tuner cards - leadtech ones | 04:55 |
| pcluser | btw I am not into pirating, but we need to fight the media companies owning our government | 04:56 |
| bkelly | have 1 dual dvb-t and 1 hybrid | 04:56 |
| * pcluser jumps off soapbox | 04:56 | |
| pcluser | so you record off cable co? | 04:57 |
| pcluser | or off air? | 04:57 |
| bkelly | off the air | 04:57 |
| pcluser | cool, like me | 04:57 |
| pcluser | wife dropped irectv, 61.00 usd a month, and there is plenty of content. | 04:58 |
| bkelly | not much cable available here in Australia - most cable is satelite - or over the air | 04:58 |
| pcluser | I must admit, not off air yet | 04:58 |
| pcluser | we pay basic cable, but I have other hdhr tuner and antennas in attic for testing. | 04:59 |
| pcluser | stations are in different directions, so we pay minimal cable, but i am sick of it. | 05:00 |
| bkelly | ps: once my transcoding profiles got setup i am now able to kick off a transcode job from mythweb | 05:00 |
| pcluser | ok, I'm going to mythweb, tell me how to pick out a recording and transcode it. | 05:01 |
| bkelly | so go to Recorded Programs | 05:02 |
| bkelly | and click on any recording | 05:02 |
| pcluser | how do you set it up, and where do you put it? I am now looking, so don't answer yet. | 05:02 |
| bkelly | didn't do any setup - i am assuming it picked the auto-detect profile | 05:04 |
| pcluser | ok, | 05:04 |
| bkelly | and also assume it will replace the original | 05:05 |
| pcluser | somewhere i set up a job to transcode experiment 1 | 05:05 |
| bkelly | it is currently encoding to the same location (/var/lib/mythtv/recordings) | 05:05 |
| bkelly | into a the same filename with ".tmp" appended | 05:05 |
| pcluser | i picked it, | 05:05 |
| pcluser | ok | 05:05 |
| bkelly | ok | 05:05 |
| pcluser | I tink i need to explore the web interface more than wiki | 05:06 |
| pcluser | ok, i retract the wife friendly need. | 05:07 |
| bkelly | mythtv 2654 2653 91 14:57 ? 00:09:18 /usr/bin/mythtranscode -j 93 --profile autodetect --verbose general --loglevel info --syslog local7 | 05:08 |
| bkelly | so definitely chose autodetect profile | 05:08 |
| pcluser | The menu in the mythtv frontend prompts you to transcode in 3 seetngs after editing, i guess that is a "feature to be" i'll use the web interface. | 05:09 |
| pcluser | Like Meade telescopes, they should take out unused lines from the menu if it is not enabled. | 05:09 |
| bkelly | those profiles are definitely there in the setup - perhaps you need to run through them from mythtv-setup to enable? | 05:10 |
| pcluser | so you are saying, in the latest mythtv jobs/ whatever that set it to autodetect? | 05:12 |
| pcluser | ok, i am fading, i will look at this log in morning, i didn't want to do auto stuff, but will try. | 05:13 |
| pcluser | thanks bkelly | 05:14 |
| pcluser | going into lala land | 05:14 |
| bkelly | ok - bye | 05:17 |
| === dekarl1 is now known as dekarl | ||
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