[mythtv-users] Help with mythtranscode?

[Joseph A. Caputo]

Devin Mullins wrote:
> Hi all! Sorry to bug, but I'm having a heck of a time getting exporting
> to work, and I'm not exactly an expert in the field, so I sort of
> fumbling around in the dark.
> 
> So, the problem is, while audio encodes fine, and creates a nice 60MB
> file for a 1/2 hour show (using nuvexport's default DVD settings), video
> encodes three frames (1 I, 1 P, 1 B) and then just sits there, waiting,
> until mythtranscode segfaults. The resulting mpeg that nuvexport
> multiplexes together sends mplayer into a fritz.
> 
> Basically, all I've done to debug it so far is hand-run and decompose
> the pipe chains that nuvexport runs (those being the mythtranscode
> producer process, and the audio and video consumer processes) to see
> where the point of failure is. I cut off the video pipechain (i.e. all
> that's left running is ffmpeg), and nothing changed, so the problem's
> either in mythtranscode, the whole fifo thing, or ffmpeg.
> 
> If anybody could help me get this up and running, I'd be quite grateful.
> My myth partition is full, and my /var partition is filling up with
> myth's complaints about that fact. :P Details follow my sig.
> 

Try upgrading your ffmpeg... fixed it for me.

-JAC