[mythtv-users] transcode not working

Josh Rosenberg mythtv at desh.info
Fri Jan 6 13:35:36 UTC 2012


On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Josh Rosenberg <mythtv at desh.info> wrote:
> Hi, all.
>
> I'm attempting to transcode recordings for size.  (A 4 hour sports
> program in raw QAM is 68 GB, which seems excessive for long-term
> storage.)  When I tell the frontend to transcode a recording (using,
> for example, medium quality), it apparently fails; nothing happens at
> all.
>
> I'm running a single combined FE+BE, which has mostly-stock Mythbuntu
> 10.04, running Myth 0.24.1.  The recordings are coming from my HDHR
> (not "prime").

So the latest is that I managed to get a transcode process to run, but
in the end the recording I attempted to transcode is exactly the same
size.  I see the following errors in the logs:

/var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log:2012-01-06 05:39:58.807 Transcoding
/var/lib/mythtv/livetv/1031_20111127160911.mpg done
/var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log:2012-01-06 05:39:58.831 Transcode:
delete old file: waiting while program is in use.
/var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log:2012-01-06 05:39:58.895 Transcode:
program is no longer in use.
/var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log:2012-01-06 05:39:58.974 ~MythContext
waiting for threads to exit.
/var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log:2012-01-06 05:39:59.148
ProgramInfo(1031_20111127160911.mpg), Error: GetPlaybackURL:
'1031_20111127160911.mpg' should be local, but it can not be found.
/var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log:2012-01-06 05:39:59.227 JobQueue:
Transcode Finished: "NFL Football":"New England Patriots at
Philadelphia Eagles": could not stat
'GetPlaybackURL/UNABLE/TO/FIND/LOCAL/FILE/ON/josh-myth/1031_20111127160911.mpg'

What's going on here?  Did the transcode finish but the transcoded
file get lost?  Am I looking in the wrong place?

Thanks,
Josh


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