My MBE is running R5.5 and I am experiencing an issue with recording profiles. When I make changes to an existing profile (resolution for example) the changes are not reflected in my recordings. Also, if I make a new profile, I don't see it as an option when I setup a recording.

1) I made a change to the 'High Quality' profile switching the res from 640x480 to 720x480. I see this reflected in the profile itself when I browse to it (Setup>TV Settings>Recording Profiles>MPEG-2 Encoders (PVR-250, PVR-350) but my captures are still in 640x480.

2) I created a new profile I called '720-high' and set it up to my liking. The profile is there when I view them (Setup>TV Settings>Recording Profiles>MPEG-2 Encoders (PVR-250, PVR-350) but it is not present as an option for setting up new recordings neither in mythweb, or through the mythfrontend.

Thoughts?

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Retired KM user (R4 - R6.04); friend to LH users.

...hate to bump my thread but I'm dying here. Hours of googling come up with nothing for this problem.

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Re #1. How are you confirming that your recordings are 640x480 vs 720x480? I only ask because some players (e.g. Apple's QuickTime player) will play back a 720x480 recording at 640x480 so things don't look stretched, but it also incorrectly reports that the recording is 640x480 even though it's just squeezed to 640x480.

The second problem sounds familiar, I'll see if I can turn up anything. I have to admit that I have never tried making a new profile, only just modified the existing ones.

EDIT: I searched for "mythtv new profile" and found this page:

http://tips.myhdbox.com/2006/05/tip-4-t ... r-hdtv.php

which seems to imply that you have to make manual changes to mythconverg in order for new profiles to be usable. Granted that page is from 2006 and things may have changed since then.

Thanks for the reply! I used mediainfo (on soruceforge) to query the mpeg that the pvr-250 made for me. Indeed it was 640x480 and not 720x480! I guess I don't need to have a new profile, but I do want my 'high quality' profile to be 720x480.

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Anytime I've made changes to the resolution of a profile, I've also changed the video bitrate. No idea why it should matter, but did you also change the resolution? If not, maybe try doing it to see if it helps.

Also, see if you can list here all your settings for your modified High Quality profile... maybe something's out of whack.

Have you tried checking the logs after a modified HQ recording should have happened to see if there are any errors?

EDIT: I recorded using my HQ profile and the file is 720x480 according to avidemux. (I usually record at 352x480.)

Have you checked the DB to see if the updated/new profiles are there? This might just be a DB problem like a missing table or the like. There are 3 tables involved: profilegroups, recordingprofiles, and codecparams. The first one is actually keyed by hostname so a mismatch there could leave you with profiles that exist but don't get used.

Hi tjc, I'm not too sure how to go about editing the db. At least now the HQ profile is doing 720x480 for me. As to the extra profile I added not being seen... I guess this will remain a mystery

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Retired KM user (R4 - R6.04); friend to LH users.

Using webmin to browse the mysql server is dead easy. You're not really looking to edit the DB, just poke around and find out if things look sane, and determining sanity ought to be as easy as "why are there profile groups associated with my FE box that doesn't have any capture cards and isn't allowed to do transcoding!"

Here, run this as root (maximize your terminal window first) and make sure that there aren't any recording profiles where they don't belong.

Oh and this will show you the resolutions: