[mythtv-users] Nuvexport/ffmpeg Crashes

manu eallaud at yahoo.fr
Sun Nov 9 13:50:05 EST 2003


Le 09.11.2003 20:36:08, Lennox Reid a écrit :
> I've been trying to get transcoding/nuvexport/etc to work.  My main
> box
> is running Myth .11 on Mandrake 9.1 from thans RPM.  Transcode does
> not
> work on this version.
> 
> I've installed Myth 0.12 on my desktop PC, copied over some shows I
> want
> to transcode (to remove commercials and archive).  After copying the
> .nuv file over to the new machine and inserting the program info into
> the database (mythconverg/recorded table), and reflagging  
> commercials,
> transcode works great.  Quality looks good, and commercial  
> elimination
> reduces file size by 30-35%
> 
> Now I want to use Nuvexport to generate DVD useable MPG's.  I am
> assuming that the proper selection in nuvexport is SVCD.  Please let
> me
> know if this is correct.
> 
> Regardless, when I try to convert the files, everything runs well for
> 1-2 hours, then X-Windows crashes.  I do not know if ffmpeg is
> complaining about anything, but the only messages I can find are in
> /var/log/messages:
> 
> 
> 
> -------
> Nov  9 02:01:35 canouk modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module synth0
> Nov  9 02:47:20 canouk kernel: __alloc_pages: 2-order allocation
> failed
> (gfp=0x1f0/0)
> Nov  9 02:48:58 canouk kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation
> failed
> (gfp=0x1d2/0)
> Nov  9 02:48:58 canouk kernel: VM: killing process X

This message seems to tell you that the VM (virtual memory) manager (a 
\part of the kernel) ran out of memory and kill X process. How much  
memory do you have on this box? Was another "big" process running at  
the same time?
Hope someone on the list can understand why you ran out of memory


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