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