[mythtv-users] Mytharchive errors

[Nick Rout]

On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Harry Devine <lifter89 at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>
> I checked the space on /tmp and it's a 5 GB partition with 4.6 GB left.
>  However, since you mentioned that it may need 2 or 3 times more space, I
> decided to change the mytharchive directory to /storage/temp.  /storage is a
> 500 GB drive where I keep my recordings, and it has about 450 GB left on it.
>  I went through some of the settings and made the following changes:
> 1) unchecked "Always use mythtranscode"
> 2) checked "Use ProjectX"
> 3) changed the mytharchive directory to be /storage/temp
>
> When I run it again, I get the same errors.  I am attaching the mythburn.log
> and progress.log files in case you'd care to peek at them.  2 things that I
> noticed that seemed really weird was "Waiting for mythtranscode to create
> the fifos" and "unknown encoder 'mpeg2video'".

run

ffmpeg -formats|less

to see whether ffmpeg recognises the videocodec mpeg2video.

(I hope you know how to use |less, it pipes the long output through a
pager, hit <space> to page through, / to search.)