[ATrpms-users] MythTV: Unknown video codec

Paulo Cavalcanti promac at gmail.com
Wed Feb 7 09:13:42 CET 2007


On 11/25/06, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky <mythtv at kosowsky.org> wrote:
>
>
> I am having the same problem with mythbackend reporting a transcode
> error due to "Unknown video codec".
>
> In mythfrontend, I set up the following paramters to transcode to MPEG-4:
>         - Software Encoders (v4l based)
>                         Default
>                                 Profile name: Default
>                                 Enable auto-transcode after recording
>                                 Width: 640
>                                 Height: 480
>                                 Codec: MPEG-4
>                                 Bitrate: 2200 (about 1Gig/hr)
>                                 Maximum quality: 2
>                                 Minimum quality: 15
>                                 Max quality difference between frames: 3
>                                 Scale bitrate for frame size
>                                 Enable high-quality recording
>
> I have the xvidcore and xvid4conf rpms installed from freshrpms.



In fact, I think it uses ffmpeg and not xvidcore. I use the same settings
here, though.
I remember having a similar problem when I changed RTjpeg/MPEG4 for
something else. Do not change this.


-- 
Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
LCG - UFRJ
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