[mythtv-users] mythtranscode lossless leaves .tmp file

[Christopher Meredith]

On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 1:47 AM, John Pilkington <J.Pilk at tesco.net> wrote:

> Michael T. Dean wrote:
>
>> On 06/25/2009 10:49 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>
>>> On 06/25/2009 08:05 PM, Nick Rout wrote:
>>>
>>>> Trying to losslessly encode to get rid of ads using this line:
>>>>
>>>> mythtranscode --chanid 2926 --starttime 2009-06-23-22-29-00 --mpeg2
>>>> --honorcutlist --showprogress
>>>>
>>>> leaves the  original file intact and the transcoded file as
>>>> /var/lib/mythtv/recordings/2926_20090623222900.mpg.tmp
>>>>
>>>> Am I missing something to have it finish the job and overwrite the
>>>> original file?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/5110
>>>
>>
>> OK.  Just saw that you're not talking about a 0-length file.  As already
>> mentioned, it sounds like an error during transcoding.  Look at your backend
>> log files.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>
> Try
>
> mythtranscode --chanid 2926 --starttime 20090623222900 --mpeg2
>  --honorcutlist --showprogress


Mine does the same thing. I think the user job that normally does the
lossless transcoding also does the database update and such. Running
mythtranscode manually always writes the new file with a .tmp extension when
I do it.
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