[mythtv-users] Mytharchive errors

[Harry Devine]

Rod Smith wrote:
> That said, it *IS* possible to either record in a DVD-compatible format 
> originally (using an SD source) or transcode the file OUTSIDE of MythTV into 
> a DVD-compatible format. (My own script for doing the latter is at 
> http://www.rodsbooks.com/mytranscode, but it doesn't integrate neatly with 
> MythTV.) When you do this, you don't need to transcode within MythTV, or at 
> most you should do a lossless transcode to remove unwanted parts of the 
> recording or to gain that small recording size reduction I mentioned earlier. 
> Thereafter, *IF* the recording is in a DVD-compliant format when you launch 
> MythArchive, you can select an option in MythArchive to skip MythArchive's 
> own transcoding step. This option is not available if MythArchive detects 
> that the recording is not in a DVD-compliant format.
>
>   
>> Also, I did see the following error in my 
>> mytharchive log, and I wonder if this would go away once the transcoding
>> problem is straightened out:
>>
>> WARNING: frames rates do not match
>> The frame rate for ntsc should be 29.97 but the stream info file report
>> a fps of
>>  59.9401
>>     
>
> My guess is that you've got an HD recording using a non-interleaved 
> (progressive) format. I'm not sure if that warning is related to your 
> problems or not. My experience is that automatic transcoding tools can easily 
> get confused by inputs they aren't expecting (or that their programmers 
> didn't anticipate, really). When this happens, they might or might not 
> complain; and complaints like the above might or might not indicate serious 
> problems. Sorry for not being very helpful on this score, but that message 
> alone just isn't very diagnostic, at least not to me. (Maybe somebody else 
> who's more familiar with MythArchive logs would be able to say with certainty 
> that the message is or is not important.)
>
>   

I tried using your script and it complained about not knowing what 
mencoder or midentify was.  I tried "apt-get install mencoder 
midentify", but it has no idea what midentify is.  My recording isn't an 
HD recording either.  If I understand you right, and mytharchive does 
its own transcoding, then the recording that I have should be OK as it 
stands, however, I still get that error about the frame rates being 
off.  So I'm still confused about that error and the process that 
mytharchive uses to put the recording to a DVD.

Any ideas?
Harry