[mythtv-users] transcode mp4 to mythtv playback capable file

[Tim Draper]

 ---- On Wed, 22 Jun 2016 10:41:42 +0100 John Pilkington <J.Pilk at tesco.net> wrote ---- 
 > On 22/06/16 09:55, Tim Draper wrote: 
 >  
 > > ahh... "mythffmpeg". i've been using ffmpeg with similar switches (i tried a few, non worked) 
 > > I'll play the test file i've just created tonight and see if it works. 
 > > thanks 
 >  
 > mythffmpeg is packaged in mythtv, mainly to avoid what used to be  
 > frequent changes in the ffmpeg interfaces.  They may differ in your box.  
 >   See (myth)ffmpeg --version 
 >  
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still getting issues with the aformentioned mythffmpeg output file.
# mythbackend -v playback,decode,file
...
2016-06-22 19:39:25.718577 E  SG(Videos): FindFile: Unable to find '24h_lemans/test1.mkv/VIDEO_TS'!
2016-06-22 19:39:25.719549 E  SG(Videos): FindFile: Unable to find '24h_lemans/test1.mkv/BDMV'!
2016-06-22 19:39:25.817656 E  SG(Videos): FindFile: Unable to find '24h_lemans/test1.mkv'!
2016-06-22 19:39:25.822068 I  MainServer::ANN Playback
2016-06-22 19:39:25.822073 I  adding: myth-fe1 as a client (events: 0)
2016-06-22 19:39:25.826748 I  MainServer::HandleAnnounce FileTransfer
2016-06-22 19:39:25.826751 I  adding: myth-fe1 as a remote file transfer
2016-06-22 19:39:25.827783 E  SG(Videos): FindFile: Unable to find '/24h_lemans/test1.mkv'!
2016-06-22 19:39:25.827787 E  ERROR: LocalFilePath unable to find local path for 'test1.mkv'.
2016-06-22 19:39:25.827792 E  Empty filename, cowardly aborting!
...


not being too familiar with how the output should look, my video SG is pointing to /mnt/data/videos/. 24h_lemans/ folder is then within this location.
permissions of this specific file are 777, and mythtv can play the other files in the 'video' SG fine.