[mythtv-users] mythtranscode silently failing

[Joe Auty]

Paul Harrison wrote:
> Joe Auty wrote:
>> Paul Harrison wrote:
>>   
>>> Does it work if you use the chanid and starttime something like:-
>>> mythtranscode -c 1405 -s 20071008195308
>>>
>>>     
>> Unfortunately, no:
>>
>> $ mythtranscode -c 1405 -s 20071008195308
>> 2007-10-09 09:39:20.911 Using runtime prefix = /usr
>> 2007-10-09 09:39:21.103 New DB connection, total: 1
>> 2007-10-09 09:39:21.246 Enabled verbose msgs: important
>> 2007-10-09 09:39:21.615 New DB connection, total: 2
>> 2007-10-09 09:39:22.330 Using protocol version 31
>> 0: start_time: 6.790 duration: 56.889
>> 1: start_time: 6.763 duration: 56.886
>> stream: start_time: 75.145 duration: 632.395 bitrate=5192 kb/s
>> 2007-10-09 09:39:23.165 New DB connection, total: 3
>> 2007-10-09 09:39:23.279 Unknown video codec:
>>
>>   
> 
> Could be the file is corrupt. Does it play OK in Myth?
> 
> If you have MythArchive installed it would be interesting to run
> mytharchivehelper --getfileinfo on the file to see what it makes of the
> file and what streams it thinks it has. It my just bailout like
> mythtranscode since it uses the same libavformat.

It does bail on all my videos which do play fine in MythTV... Here is a
copy of my output of mytharchivehelper:

# mytharchivehelper --getfileinfo 1280_20071004210000.mpg testfile.mpg 1
2007-10-09 13:09:48.675 Opening 1280_20071004210000.mpg
0: start_time: 31.916 duration: 329.249
1: start_time: 31.873 duration: 329.257
stream: start_time: 354.145 duration: 3658.797 bitrate=5189 kb/s
Input #0, mpeg, from '1280_20071004210000.mpg':
  Duration: 01:00:58.7, start: 354.145378, bitrate: 5189 kb/s
  Stream #0.0[0x1e0]: Video: mpeg2video, yuv420p, 480x480, 6000 kb/s,
29.97 fps(r)
  Stream #0.1[0x1c0]: Audio: mp2, 48000 Hz, stereo, 384 kb/s
2007-10-09 13:09:48.690 Calculating frame count
2007-10-09 13:10:36.302 frames = 109652
2007-10-09 13:10:36.303 duration = 3658




I did set my recording profile for either "transcode" or my capture card
to capture at 640 x 480 rather than 480 x 480... Is that a part of the
problem?





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