<div class="gmail_quote">On 4 October 2012 10:42, Paul Gardiner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lists@glidos.net" target="_blank">lists@glidos.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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I updated it, got a different error, did some Googling and found others<br>
with the same issue, changing "-preset" to "-vpreset" fixed it for me.<br>
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Oh ok. Interesting. I'll look into that. ffmpeg does change the way<br>
options are used every now and then,</blockquote><div><br>Yeah, I see a lot of posts about things changing, no problem <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Working fine from the command line, but it just stalls as a user job,<br>
never changes from "queued". In the backend log, I can see the tvdb<br>
metadata lookup happening, but nothing else. Did anyone else get this<br>
working?<br>
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Do you have mythweb? Can you see if the job is still there queued?<br>
Perhaps it never got started because of the time period you have set<br>
up for user jobs.<br><br></blockquote></div>Yes, mythweb shows it as "Queued". I can also see the job via the frontend in the information centre and am able to remove the stalled jobs from there.<br><br>Only realised earlier that you wrote this script, spotted the "glidos" username on the wiki and email address. So thanks for the script!<br>
<br>Just to confirm what I have done, don't want to waste anyones time with a silly mistake:<br><br>Grabbed the script from the wiki, stuck it in a file in my home directory called "mythtranscode" (also tried with "mythtranscode.sh", not sure if that would make a difference.<br>
<br>ran chmod a+x on the script<br><br>In mythtv-setup, entered the following as a userjob called "Mythtranscode":<br><br>/home/user/mythtranscode.sh --chanid "%CHANID%" --starttime "%STARTTIME%" --title "%TITLE%" --subtitle "%SUBTITLE%" --outdir /media/media/Videos/Other/Transcoded --passthrough<br>
<br>NOTE: Looking through the setup for this post, I found that on one of the previous screens, there is a tick box to enable each user job, this was not checked. Weird that I was still able to start the job off with this not ticked. Job still doesn't run properly though...<br>
<br>So after checking the user job on, it now starts to run, but errors out, rather than staying queued:<br><br>Oct 4 23:06:56 MYTHTV1 mythlogserver: mythbackend[1878]: I UserJob_1439 jobqueue.cpp:2409 (DoUserJobThread) JobQueue: Started MythTranscode for Homeland:"The Vest" recorded from channel 1004 at 2012-04-29T19:55:00Z<br>
Oct 4 23:06:56 MYTHTV1 mythlogserver: mythbackend[1878]: E UserJob_1439 jobqueue.cpp:2444 (DoUserJobThread) JobQueue: User Job '/home/user/mythtranscode.sh --chanid "1004" --starttime "20120429205500" --title "Homeland" --subtitle "The Vest" --outdir /media/media/Videos/Other/Transcoded --passthrough' failed.<br>
<br>So not much info to go on there.<br><br>Running that line "/home/user/mythtranscode.sh --chanid "1004" --starttime "20120429205500"
--title "Homeland" --subtitle "The Vest" --outdir
/media/media/Videos/Other/Transcoded --passthrough" in the terminal, I get:<br><br>"Failed to derive fifo formats"<br><br>Which I can see in the script, but not entirely sure what it means. The script has ran successfully on one of the Homeland recordings before, when I was testing it out, so don't think the source video is bad.<br>
<br>Cheers<br><br>Martin<br>