[02:22] <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.
[02:23] <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.
[02:25] <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).
[02:26] <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.
[02:27] <pcluser> A drunken monky procedure would be nice, but just point me to urls is ok.
[02:28]  * pcluser listens
[03:47] <pcluser> hello
[03:59] <bkelly> pcluser, there's a transcode button in the mythweb interface
[04:03] <pcluser_afk> hi bkelly
[04:03] <bkelly> hi
[04:04] <bkelly> BTW, I am new to mythbuntu ... only converted over from mythdora a few months back
[04:06] <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.
[04:07] <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.
[04:10] <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.
[04:11] <bkelly> yea - i do pretty much everything from the web interface
[04:12] <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
[04:13] <pcluser_afk> can you give me a dunken monkey procedure, and why isn't this in the wiki?
[04:13] <pcluser_afk> *drunken
[04:14] <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?
[04:15] <pcluser_afk> actually just tell me how to do it on mythweb
[04:16] <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.
[04:19] <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
[04:20] <pcluser_afk> but I think you have to set it up first... looking
[04:21] <pcluser_afk> yes, but they are not set up to any commands
[04:22] <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.
[04:23] <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.
[04:24] <pcluser_afk> nice you try to help here...
[04:24] <pcluser_afk> what do you use your mythtv for?
[04:25] <pcluser_afk> I love mine since '03, and use hdhomerun tuners.
[04:26] <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
[04:27] <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.
[04:28] <bkelly> been using it for 5 years or so now - love it
[04:29] <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
[04:30] <bkelly> i would like to use myth for iptv but my internet not yet fast enough
[04:31] <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.
[04:32] <pcluser_afk> 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
[04:35] <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
[04:36] <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
[04:37] <pcluser> should be kde rather than kde4 line in the adress or something
[04:38] <pcluser> if you d/l their latest livecd iso, it will not update from the repo
[04:39] <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
[04:40] <bkelly> ok - will keep that in mind for my next server project
[04:40] <bkelly> deb or rpm based?
[04:41] <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.
[04:42] <pcluser> pclinuxos uses synaptic and rpm, but it think is looking into replacing synaptic.
[04:42] <pcluser> *I
[04:43] <pcluser> usually compared to or is thought from mandriva, but was forked loooong ago, totally it's own distro.
[04:45] <bkelly> ok
[04:46] <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.
[04:47] <pcluser> and i trust it more than mac/wintel/ms folks
[04:48] <pcluser> have a imac here with cheap blown caps from college, apple wants 700. to fix
[04:49] <pcluser> I volunteer engineering at raio station, I hope i can get 200.00 to fix
[04:50] <pcluser> seeing I have a few thousand invested in bench equipment.
[04:51] <bkelly> wow - good luck
[04:52] <pcluser> so what do you get your video from?
[04:54] <pcluser> I mean tuner, or if off cable, or even isp like netkix
[04:55] <bkelly> tuner cards - leadtech ones
[04:56] <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
[04:57] <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
[04:58] <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
[04:59] <pcluser> we pay basic cable, but I have other hdhr tuner and antennas in attic for testing.
[05:00] <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
[05:01] <pcluser> ok, I'm going to mythweb, tell me how to pick out a recording and transcode it.
[05:02] <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.
[05:04] <bkelly> didn't do any setup - i am assuming it picked the auto-detect profile
[05:04] <pcluser> ok,
[05:05] <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
[05:06] <pcluser> I tink i need to explore the web interface more than wiki
[05:07] <pcluser> ok, i retract the wife friendly need.
[05:08] <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
[05:09] <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.
[05:10] <bkelly> those profiles are definitely there in the setup - perhaps you need to run through them from mythtv-setup to enable?
[05:12] <pcluser> so you are saying, in the latest mythtv jobs/ whatever that set it to autodetect?
[05:13] <pcluser> ok, i am fading, i will look at this log in morning, i didn't want to do auto stuff, but will try.
[05:14] <pcluser> thanks bkelly
[05:14] <pcluser> going into lala land
[05:17] <bkelly> ok - bye