[mythtv-users] exit status 255,

[Peter Hocking]

Hi

I've recently reset my MythTV backend up, (Ubuntu 9.10, MythTV 0.22), with 2
X HD Homerun tuners on a dual core Athlon 4000 with 4 gig of RAM

Everything works fine except for when I want to manually transcode recorded
shows to delete the commercials. When I do, I get "exit status 255, job
status was "errored". I tried changing the default transcoding profile as
suggested at http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Removing_Commercials, but it made no
difference.

Looking in the log file I see;

2010-03-09 20:54:56.776 Transcoding from
/var/lib/mythtv/recordings/1060_20100221202500.mpg to
/var/lib/mythtv/recordings/1060_20100221202500.mpg.tmp
2010-03-09 20:54:56.884 MythContext: Connecting to backend server:
192.168.11.112:6543 (try 1 of 1)
2010-03-09 20:54:56.919 Using protocol version 50
2010-03-09 20:54:56.967 MainServer::ANN Monitor
2010-03-09 20:54:57.008 adding: mythtv-server as a client (events: 0)
2010-03-09 20:54:57.052 MainServer::ANN Monitor
2010-03-09 20:54:57.108 adding: mythtv-server as a client (events: 1)
2010-03-09 20:54:57.209 [mp2 @ 0x7fc319bff820]Header missing
2010-03-09 20:54:57.263 AFD: Opened codec 0x7d73b0, id(MPEG2VIDEO)
type(Video)
2010-03-09 20:54:57.299 AFD: codec AC3 has 0 channels
2010-03-09 20:54:57.342 AFD: Opened codec 0x804ba0, id(AC3) type(Audio)
2010-03-09 20:54:57.575 MainServer::ANN Monitor
2010-03-09 20:54:57.615 adding: mythtv-server as a client (events: 1)
2010-03-09 20:54:57.579 AFD: Warning, video codec 0x7d73b0 id(MPEG2VIDEO)
type (Video) already open.
2010-03-09 20:54:57.708 AFD: Warning, audio codec 0x804ba0 id(AC3) type
(Audio) already open, leaving it alone.
2010-03-09 20:54:57.748 AFD: codec AC3 has 0 channels
2010-03-09 20:54:57.790 NVP(0): Disabling Audio, params(0,0,0)
2010-03-09 20:54:58.088 Honoring the cutlist while transcoding
2010-03-09 20:54:58.132 Cutlist        :
0-15052,23701-26717,35689-40701,52545-58543,68222-73726,83441-89201,101686-1
27046
2010-03-09 20:54:58.183 Original Length: 127046 frames
2010-03-09 20:54:58.223 New Length     : 61344 frames
2010-03-09 20:54:58.266 NVP(0): Disabling Audio, params(0,0,0)
2010-03-09 20:54:58.509 No video information found!
2010-03-09 20:54:58.555 Please ensure that recording profiles for the
transcoder are set
2010-03-09 20:54:58.628 Transcoding
/var/lib/mythtv/recordings/1060_20100221202500.mpg failed
2010-03-09 20:54:58.684 Deleting
/var/lib/mythtv/recordings/1060_20100221202500.mpg.tmp
2010-03-09 20:54:58.733 Error Truncating
'/var/lib/mythtv/recordings/1060_20100221202500.mpg.tmp' could not determine
size of the file, unlinking immediately.
2010-03-09 20:54:58.997 JobQueue: Transcode Errored: Bones "The Gamer in the
Grease": High Quality (exit status 255, job status was "Errored")

Any ideas or tips?

TIA

Peter