[mythtv-users] Mytharchive errors

[Harry Devine]

Rod Smith wrote:
> On Tuesday 02 December 2008 08:37:15 pm Harry Devine wrote:
>   
>> Nick Rout wrote:
>>     
>>> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Harry Devine <lifter89 at comcast.net> wrote:
>>>       
>>>> 2008-12-01 19:53:16 ERROR: Failed while running ffmpeg to re-encode
>>>> video. Command was ffmpeg -y -threads 2 -f s16le -ar 48000 -ac 2 -i
>>>> /tmp/work/1/audout -f rawvideo -pix_fmt yuv420p -s 480x480 -aspect
>>>> 1.33333 -r 29.97 -i /tmp/work/1/vidout -aspect 1.33333 -r 29.97 -croptop
>>>> 0 -cropright 0 -cropbottom 0 -cropleft 0 -s 720x480 -b 4771k -vcodec
>>>> mpeg2video -qmin 5 -qmax 31 -qdiff 31 -ab 192k -ar 48000 -acodec ac3 -f
>>>> dvd "/tmp/work/1/newfile2.mpg"
>>>>         
>>> Try running that command by hand as the same user that runs
>>> mytharchive and see if there is a more informative error message.
>>>       
>> I just tried that and got:
>>
>> Unknown input or output format: s161e
>>
>> What is the -f option supposed to be?  And why would Myth be putting in
>> s161e if its not valid?
>>     
>
> My best guess is that your version of ffmpeg doesn't support s161e, but the 
> MythArchive script expects it to have that support. What Linux distribution 
> are you using, and from where did you install MythTV and ffmpeg? You might be 
> able to fix things by removing your current ffmpeg and re-installing it from 
> another source. It's also conceivable that you could get it working by 
> installing a support package of some sort, but I don't know what package to 
> suggest, offhand. (My knowledge of the tangled Web of audio and video codecs, 
> and the packages that support them, is limited at best.)
>
>   
I'm using Mythbuntu 8.10 x86_64 bit version.  I suppose I could do that, 
but I would've expected the pre-packaged distros to have everything that 
was needed.  Here's what 8.10 came pre-packaged with (unless a system 
update came across and updated ffmpeg):

hdevine at hdevine-desktop:/tmp$ ffmpeg -version
FFmpeg version r11872+debian_3:0.svn20080206-12ubuntu3, Copyright (c) 
2000-2008 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
  configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-pp --enable-swscaler 
--enable-x11grab --prefix=/usr --enable-libgsm --enable-libtheora 
--enable-libvorbis --enable-pthreads --disable-strip --enable-libfaad 
--enable-libfaadbin --enable-liba52 --enable-liba52bin 
--enable-libdc1394 --enable-shared --disable-static
  libavutil version: 49.6.0
  libavcodec version: 51.50.0
  libavformat version: 52.7.0
  libavdevice version: 52.0.0
  built on Oct  3 2008 22:41:23, gcc: 4.3.2
FFmpeg r11872+debian_3:0.svn20080206-12ubuntu3
libavutil   3212800
libavcodec  3355136
libavformat 3409664
libavdevice 3407872


Thanks for the help!
Harry