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Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 06:02:39PM +0200, KvB wrote:
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<pre wrap=""> I still can't figure out this transcoding thing. One moment when I set
"Start transcoding" it doesn't do anything at all, the other it works
like a charm. Now, I changed the recording profiles for transcoders
and set all to 720*576 since all my recordings have that resolution
(PAL). When I started transcoding a friends episode yesterday, I
discovered that by the time I woke up this morning, this recording was
9Gb large (!) for 25 minutes! Could anyone explain this? Or is there
somewhere a decent manual / HOWTO for transcoding? Thanks!
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Transcoding is done by the back end when it scans it's work queue, so
it isn't guaranteed to start immediately when you mark something on the
front end.
That said, we too have problems (.16 and 10/01 CVS) with mythtranscode
creating files larger than the original -- in some cases *far* larger.
We had a 1.9GB MPEG-2 episode blow up to 40GB on an MPEG-4 transcode
the other day. I'm trying to capture one before we have to kill it,
for further analysis.
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I'm wondering if this is my problem with my new/still_creating setup. I
tried transcoding a show and watched the file in the video dir get
bigger. Then, I went and did some other stuff. A bit later things
started going weird - machine started to slowdown. I looked at the
processes and nothing out of the ordinary at all. I rebooted a bit
later and then couldn't boot == after a couple of hours seaching I
found that fstab was there but nothing in it and my swap partition was
gone. I wouldn't think that this would ever happen except I built this
box on a 20GB drive. So, it's comparitively small setup.<br>
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Now, I have no swap partition and my main partition keeps filling up! I
need to now try and repair this.<br>
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