[mythtv-users] Transcode Problems

[Steven Adeff]

On 3/31/07, Andy Speagle <sidrew at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ok,
>
> Having a strange problem with transcoding... it seems that my automagic
> transcoding is failing more than 75% of the time for an unknown reason.  I'm
> not getting any reasonable output in the logs of why this error is
> occurring.  Here's what I have so far:
>
> 2007-03-31 17:55:00.894 Transcoding from
> /mnt/video/1070_20070327203000.mpg to
> /mnt/video/1070_20070327203000.mpg.tmp
> 2007-03-31 17:55:00.958 Connecting to backend server: 192.168.90.1:6543 (try
> 1 of 5)
> 2007-03-31 17:55:00.975 Using protocol version 31
> 0: start_time: 0.036 duration: 164.528
> 1: start_time: 0.017 duration: 164.529
> stream: start_time: 0.189 duration: 1828.304 bitrate=6706 kb/s
>  2007-03-31 17:55:01.267 AFD: Opened codec 0x81366c0, id(MPEG2VIDEO)
> type(Video)
> 2007-03-31 17:55:01.299 AFD: Opened codec 0x8136ac0, id(MP2) type(Audio)
> 2007-03-31 17:55:01.588 Copying Audio while transcoding Video
>  2007-03-31 17:59:16.319 JobQueue: Transcode Errored: South Park "Professor
> Chaos": (Low Quality)
> 2007-03-31 17:59:16.403 transcode: Transcode Errored: South Park "Professor
> Chaos": (Low Quality)
>
> Sometimes a transcode job will get nearly done... and just fail... The error
> that shows up in the Job Queue... is:
>
> Transcode failed with status: 0
>
> I've set my system to keep an extra 20GB of space free... and I've been
> pretty much at that threshold for a while... will transcoding fail if it
> reaches that threshold while transcoding?
>
> I'm totally at a loss here.

try running mythtranscode manually with "-v all".

-- 
Steve
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