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

John Pilkington J.Pilk at tesco.net
Wed Jun 22 20:01:40 UTC 2016


On 22/06/16 20:29, Tim Draper wrote:
>
>

>   > 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!
>   > ...

Can you make a local copy?  Have you 'Imported' the file into the Video 
SGs ?

> should of probably included the mythffmpeg -i output of the bad file:
> $ ffmpeg -i 24h_lemans/test1.mkv

> Input #0, matroska,webm, from '24h_lemans/test1.mkv':
>    Metadata:
>      COMPATIBLE_BRANDS: mp41isom
>      MAJOR_BRAND     : mp42
>      MINOR_VERSION   : 0
>      ENCODER         : Lavf54.63.104
>    Duration: 00:35:13.67, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 15468 kb/s
>      Stream #0:0(und): Video: h264 (High), yuv420p(tv, smpte170m/smpte170m/bt470m), 1920x1080 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 60 fps, 60 tbr, 1k tbn, 120 tbc (default)
>      Metadata:
>        LANGUAGE        : und
>        HANDLER_NAME    : VideoHandler
>      Stream #0:1(und): Audio: aac (LC), 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp (default)
>      Metadata:
>        LANGUAGE        : und
>        HANDLER_NAME    : SoundHandler
>
> ------
> and a working file:
>
> $ ffmpeg -i working.mkv

> Input #0, matroska,webm, from 'working.mkv':
>    Metadata:
>      encoder         : libebml v1.3.3 + libmatroska v1.4.4
>      creation_time   : 2016-04-20 05:13:02
>    Duration: 00:42:21.24, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 3441 kb/s
>      Stream #0:0: Video: h264 (High), yuv420p(tv, bt709/unknown/unknown), 1280x720, SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9, 29.97 fps, 29.97 tbr, 1k tbn, 59.94 tbc (default)


I'm not clear if the main problem is network access, or the much higher 
data and frame rates of your test file.  Do you have others with rates 
like that?

John



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