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Tuner Make/Model: Hauppauge OpenCable Receiver
Hi,
My DVR (and Live TV) works fine, but … the recordings stored as an output are at a (too) high bit rate, taking up a lot of storage space (i.e. ~ 15 Mbps, best I can tell). The setup is as noted here, and I do have Transcoding enabled - but I’d like to be able to adjust the output rate, again … to save storage space. For what I want, likely ~ 4-6 Mbps is just fine, and I do have an Nvidia 1060 GPU in the machine, so no real horsepower issues. I just need to get it to adjust the output 
.
Is there any way to “fine tune” the output bit rate from the transcoder (for DVR recordings specifically)?
Thanks!
There are unfortunately no separate parameters for the transcoder when transcoding DVR recordings on the fly.
I recommend you to use a custom postprocessing script to compress the original recording further.
That makes sense, thanks! I had one up and running before, but ran into two issues (at least that I recall 
). These may be non-issues now, not sure,
- comskip, I didn’t find a way to have Plex read / use the comskip (EDL) file … so no option to skip in playback. I admit, I really like that - it’s why I got rid of my script (i.e. because Plex added this). Is there a way to use my script generated EDL?
- show information, I found that the DVR details were lost after post-processing. Is there a way to maintain this info? That said, I have had some issues lately where it’s all lost anyways, so perhaps this one isn’t a biggie. LOL!
Thanks again.
BTW, on the first one, this may be easy now … it depends 
. Which occurs first, from the DVR settings,
- POSTPROCESSING SCRIPT
- DETECT COMMERCIALS
It may be that I can transcode, put the file back (different extension OK?), and then let Plex handle the commercial detection.
Thanks!
FYI, to let others know, hopefully helps them
=> Yes, the sequence above is correct - thanks Plex! I can transcode, then commercials are detected (and metadata preserved). Perfect!
