File tab

Format

Selects output container format

Audio language

Selects the audio language to include in the output file
- Selecting all will include all valid audio streams

Commercial method

Remove cuts commercials and transcodes
Chapters sets chapters instead of removing commercials while encoding
Only-cut removes commercials without re-encoding
- output will be in ts format

Save copy of original file

Saves copy of original recording when modifying recording in the database
- file will be file.ext.old

Use commercial detection results

Allows the use of commercial detection results as a cut-list

Include subtitles

Convert closed captions to subtitle streams

Enable export

enables exporting of recordings

Fallback directory

This is the location used for temporary storage of files
- exported recordings will be here if the hash verification when moving to the export directory fails

Export directory

This is the location you want to send your recordings

Export type

Selects the file naming scheme for exported files

Movie an TV directory structure

none places recordings directly into the export directory
folders builds a directory tree for recordings
- Movies: /Movies/title(year)/
  - year only included if recording entry has a year
- TV: /TV shows/title/season/

Include episode title in filename

Adds the episode name to the end of the recordings filename

Allow search for unknown programs

Enables internet metadata search for recordings missing a program-id

HD/SD tabs

see https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Encode/H.264 for info related to H.264 options

video codec

select output video codec

preset

sets the H.264 encoding preset

CRF

sets the H.264 crf value

Deinterlacer

Selects the type of de-interlacing

Audio codec

selects audio codec for the output file
- copy keeps the original unprocessed audio streams

Audio bitrate per channel

Sets the audio bit-rate depending on the number of channels in the source
- 2 channels(stereo) at 64 would be 128k