Hey guys, so, the other day i bought a dct 6200 and now have it working via firewire connected to my SBE (slave backend) which is an AMD Athlon 64 3000+ with a gig of ram and a 200 gb sata hd - everything is working fine, im able to record, and the picture quality rocks.. the only problem that im having is after a recording is finished, i can't set it up an auto transcode - as most of the content is still sd and not hd leaving it not transcoded is not bad with the sd, but with the hd, i dont have alot of space. Im wondering if anyone knows how i can have it do the auto transcode... any ideas?



- Scott

I played with transcoding my HD recordings to divx. It works, it saves disk space and the resulting video looks good, but it takes a long to do the transcode. On a P4-2.4ghz system it takes 2-3 hours to transcode a 1 hour recording. If you want to try it anyway, you need to re-configure the "utils/setup->setup->TV-settings->Recording profiles->transcoders->from mpeg2" and set "automatically transcode after recording" -- I don't recall where this setting is located, but you can find a reference to it by search the forums or in the mythtv docs.

Also, I think there was one R5 release where some profiles were missing. There is a posting somewhere that talks about how to resovle this if you are on that rleease. I know that R5A30.2 does not have this problem.

Marc

nice thanks marc - i do have it set to auto transcode from mpeg2, but its not picking up on the firewire ones... im going to be upgrading to 30.2 tommorow.. thanks

any luck getting it to work with R5A30.2? I am running R5A30.2 with a DCT-6200 firewire input and am looking to do some command line transcoding.

Can someone post a basic command that would transcode recording via the firewire port to that also utilizes the commercial cutlists. I'm looking for the output to be reasonable quality and playable on either a mac os x or windows.

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