[mythtv-users] Can anyone see why

[James Linder]

> On 24 Mar 2020, at 8:00 pm, mythtv-users-request at mythtv.org wrote:
> 
> I had a hierarchy of MythA-C, MythD-F for my recordings
> I changed the hierarchy to Myth-A, Myth-B etc
> 
> The first transcode I did failed
> I tried another from another chanel. That too failed, but I see nothing wrong. Anybody see my error
> Thanks
> James
> 
> [sandypit] /store/jam [1003]% ffprobe /store/1092_20200315123600.ts
> ffprobe version 4.2.1 Copyright (c) 2007-2019 the FFmpeg developers
> built with gcc 9 (SUSE Linux)
> ...
> [mp3float @ 0x560306e93e00] Header missing
> [mpegts @ 0x560306e8db40] PES packet size mismatch
>  Last message repeated 1 times
> [mpegts @ 0x560306e8db40] Could not find codec parameters for stream 3 (Unknown: none ([5][0][0][0] / 0x0005)): unknown codec
> Consider increasing the value for the 'analyzeduration' and 'probesize' options
> [mpegts @ 0x560306e8db40] Could not find codec parameters for stream 4 (Unknown: none ([11][0][0][0] / 0x000B)): unknown codec
> Consider increasing the value for the 'analyzeduration' and 'probesize' options
> [mpegts @ 0x560306e8db40] Could not find codec parameters for stream 5 (Unknown: none ([12][0][0][0] / 0x000C)): unknown codec
> Consider increasing the value for the 'analyzeduration' and 'probesize' options
> Input #0, mpegts, from '/store/1092_20200315123600.ts':
> Duration: 03:04:28.69, start: 8823.395622, bitrate: 2938 kb/s
> Program 1
>  Stream #0:0[0x204]: Video: mpeg2video (Main) ([2][0][0][0] / 0x0002), yuv420p(tv, top first), 720x576 [SAR 64:45 DAR 16:9], 25 fps, 25 tbr, 90k tbn, 50 tbc
>  Stream #0:1[0x28d](eng): Audio: mp2 ([3][0][0][0] / 0x0003), 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp, 192 kb/s
>  Stream #0:2[0x243](eng): Subtitle: dvb_teletext ([6][0][0][0] / 0x0006)
>  Stream #0:3[0x321]: Unknown: none ([5][0][0][0] / 0x0005)
>  Stream #0:4[0x322]: Unknown: none ([11][0][0][0] / 0x000B)
>  Stream #0:5[0x323]: Unknown: none ([12][0][0][0] / 0x000C)
> Unsupported codec with id 94215 for input stream 2
> Unsupported codec with id 0 for input stream 3
> Unsupported codec with id 0 for input stream 4
> Unsupported codec with id 0 for input stream 5
> [sandypit] /store/jam [1004]%
> 
> ...
> + mythtranscode -i /store/1092_20200315123600.ts -o '/store/Movies/MythJ/You Only Live Twice.avi' --honorcutlist --showprogress -m
> 2020-03-22 17:32:29.752980 C  mythtranscode version: fixes/29 [v29.1-60-gaf5d819671] www.mythtv.org
> 2020-03-22 17:32:29.752999 C  Qt version: compile: 5.12.3, runtime: 5.13.1
> 2020-03-22 17:32:30.783886 E  No locale defaults file for en_AU, skipping
> 2020-03-22 17:32:30.816580 E  Skipping unsupported codec 3 on stream 2
> 2020-03-22 17:32:30.816584 E  Skipping unsupported codec 2 on stream 3
> 2020-03-22 17:32:40.976172 E  Couldn't open input file, error #-2
> 2020-03-22 17:32:40.977115 E  Transcoding /store/1092_20200315123600.ts failed
> + stat=128
> + [[ 128 == 0 ]]
> + echo transcode failed try recode needed for some h264 transmissions of HD
> transcode failed try recode needed for some h264 transmissions of HD
> 
> nothing here has changed
> 
> [sandypit] /store/jam [1004]% ls -l /store/1092_20200315123600.ts
> -rw-r--r-- 1 jam video 4066154240 Mar 15 23:40 /store/1092_20200315123600.ts

This is a general critique

Guys we are no longer living in the days of fortran and 12K of core so why are the error messages still from that era.

stuff like

 QString("Couldn't open input file, error #%1").arg(ret));

is akin to saying ‘something is wrong somewhere’

1/2 hour building mythtranscode with decent error messages (and qt make that so easy)
1 second to see the error
aaargh
James