[mythtv-users] Nuvexport/ mencoder issues

[The GUIGuy]

Hi

I am using a clean install of mythbuntu 9.10 & mythtv 0.22RC- I had 
nuvexport working with mencoder to archive tv recordings.

Then two days ago, after an update, I think, nuvexport/mencoder started 
this with every file processed:

[quote]
  Waiting for mythtranscode to set up the fifos.
Starting mencoder.
processed: 38312 of 39161 frames (97.83%), 25.13 fps
mythtranscode finished.
processed: 39114 of 39161 frames (99.88%), 25.09 fps

mythtranscode died early.Please use the --debug option to figure out 
what went wrong.
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php...ort#Debug_Mode
[/quote]

As you can see it doesn't quite finish the job and exits.
The log files are only telling me that "mythtranscode died early"


I've tried the --debug option and then executing the commands.

[Quote]
mkdir -m 0755 /tmp/fifodir_10768/
[/quote]

completes
The second command

[Quote]
/usr/bin/nice -n19 /usr/bin/mythtranscode --showprogress -p '0' -c 
'1002' -s '2009-10-24T22:10:00' -f "/tmp/fifodir_10768/" --honorcutlist 2>&1
[/quote]

seems to hang at this point:

[quote]
Quote:2009-10-26 08:32:21.861 Using runtime prefix = /usr
2009-10-26 08:32:21.862 Using configuration directory = /home/guiguy/.mythtv
2009-10-26 08:32:21.862 Empty LocalHostName.
2009-10-26 08:32:21.877 New DB connection, total: 1
2009-10-26 08:32:21.896 Closing DB connection named 'DBManager0'
2009-10-26 08:32:21.896 Enabled verbose msgs: important
2009-10-26 08:32:21.923 New DB connection, total: 2
2009-10-26 08:32:22.004 Using protocol version 50
[/quote]



Essentially I now cannot batch archive any recordings. I've tried ffmpeg 
and transcode but they don't seem to do xvid x264 etc.. I know the 
recommendation is to recompile ffmpeg, but I'm finding that beyond my 
meagre talents.

Or perhaps there's another more practical way to archive recordings?


Can any one help?

Thanks