[mythtv-users] Mythtranscode: Deadlock detected.

[John Pilkington]

On 16/12/2022 22:29, John Pilkington wrote:
> On 16/12/2022 21:13, A. F. Cano wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have done a simple edit of a tv program: deleted from beginning to
>> first cut point and from second cut point to end.  When playing it in
>> the frontend, it works great.  However I would like to save the part
>> between the cut points to a separate file, so I used:
>>
>> $ mythtranscode  -m --honorcutlist --showprogress -i 
>> /video/mythtv/1021_20221124043500.ts -o /var/tmp/highway-signs.mpg
>> 2022-12-16 16:02:25.112155 C  mythtranscode version:  [v31.0] 
>> www.mythtv.org
>> 2022-12-16 16:02:25.112176 C  Qt version: compile: 5.15.2, runtime: 
>> 5.15.2
>> 2022-12-16 16:02:28.613395 E  Deadlock detected.  One buffer is full 
>> when the other is empty!  Aborting
>> 2022-12-16 16:02:28.615211 E  Transcoding 
>> /video/mythtv/1021_20221124043500.ts failed
>>
>> I'm using Debian stable and mythtv from deb-multimedia.  Is this error a
>> known problem? or is it the result of some incorrect option?  Is there
>> anything I can do short of installing v32?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Augustine
> 
> Here's a reference from 2003 :-)  There are later ones too...
> 
> https://lists.archive.carbon60.com/mythtv/dev/16350?search_string=One%20buffer%20is%20full%20when%20the%20other%20is%20empty;#16350
> 
> 
More constructively:  see https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/issues/588 
which referred to master and was closed  at the end of July.

I think mythtranscode still fails for h264 content.