[mythtv-users] Error While Running TCREQUANT

[John Pilkington]

Jens Holzhaeuser wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 09:16:55PM +0000, Stephen Kitchener wrote:
>> On Saturday 30 Jan 2010, Nick Rout wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Stephen Kitchener
>>>
>>> <stephen at g6dzj.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Apologies it this is an FAQ, but am I correct in thinking that tcrequant
>>>> is now missing from mythtranscode ??
>>>>
>>>> I have only just installed 0.22, a couple of weeks, and I was seeing if
>>>> mytharchive still worked for me, and I got the error in the subject line.
>>>>
>>>> I realise that 0.23 is due out soon and that this may be addressed in
>>>> this coming release, but I thought that I should ask.
>>>>
>>>> I am assuming that tcrequant is a separate executable and should be found
>>>> from a "locate" issued from the root user, but nothing was found.
>>>>
>>>> I am using Fedora 12 and atrpms repos and mythtv 0.22
>>>>
>>>> Is there something that I can do to fix this please - or should I wait
>>>> till 0.23 is released ??
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>> tcrequant should be in the transcode package. If it isn't installed
>>> then presumably your packager has forgotten to include it as a
>>> dependency.
> 
> tcrequant has been deprecated by the upstream transcode developers.
> It seems it has some bugs and is not actively developed anymore by anyone, 
> so it will only be compiled with the --enable-deprecated (or something
> similar, from memory) option to the configure script of the transcode 
> package.
> 
> On my debian system I usually apt-get the source from debian-multimedia, 
> change the debian package files, compile a .deb and install that. 
> 
> I can post more details tonight if anybody is interested, but it's 
> fairly easy to figure out.
>  
>> Thanks for the suggestion, I have read somewhere, can't remember which list, 
>> but it may have been atrpms, that 64 bit machines running tcrequant 
>> executables, would produce unplayable files, so as I am running a 64 bit 
>> machine, this might not be a go. So in reality I am looking for a replacement 
>> somewhere. 
> 
> tcrequant is only used if the resulting files are too large to fit
> the DVD. It doesn't work in all cases, it's a hit and miss, but I
> would think it's not really a 32/64 bit issue.
> 
>> Unless someone else has done this and fixed it ??
> 
> An alternative would be nice, but I haven't really found anything with
> googeling. Suggestions welcome.
> 
> I had hoped an alternative would be provided with 0.22 (I am still running
> 0.21), but I guess not. If somebody points to an alternative binary for
> this task, I probably could provide adapted mythtrancode scripts.
> 
> 
> 	Jens

I hadn't realised that Stephen had posted on this list too.  You may be 
interested in this post from yesterday.  It's a working alternative.

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/367308#367308

John P