<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 10:46 AM Jay Harbeston <<a href="mailto:jharbestonus@gmail.com">jharbestonus@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Oct 26, 2022, at 10:37 AM, Jay Harbeston <<a href="mailto:jharbestonus@gmail.com" target="_blank">jharbestonus@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Oct 26, 2022, at 9:37 AM, James Abernathy <<a href="mailto:jfabernathy@gmail.com" target="_blank">jfabernathy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div dir="ltr">I'm running the latest v32 on Ubuntu 22.04 and experimenting with commercial flagging, editing, and transcoding.<div><br></div><div>My problem is with the User Job Transcode. Using mythfrontend I navigate to the recording and instead of playing it I navigate to User Jobs and select Transcode video and then select default profile. The job will queue but fail immediately.</div><div><br></div><div>Not sure if I have to set up something first, but it's not working by default. Here's the transcode log.</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace">Oct 26 09:22:04 kubuntu-closet mythtranscode: mythtranscode[217202]: E CoreContext transcode.cpp:729 (TranscodeFile) No video information found!
<br>Oct 26 09:22:04 kubuntu-closet mythtranscode: mythtranscode[217202]: E CoreContext transcode.cpp:730 (TranscodeFile) Please ensure that recording profiles for the transcoder are set
<br>Oct 26 09:22:04 kubuntu-closet mythtranscode: mythtranscode[217202]: E CoreContext main.cpp:746 (main) Transcoding /data/mythtv/recordings/16218_20221004020000.ts failed
<br></span></div></div></div></blockquote><br></div><div>Looks like this is the problem. You need some recording profiles. I did do this long ago, but don’t remember whether they are defined in the frontend or backend.</div><br><div><br></div></div></div></blockquote><br></div><div>Additional note: they are defined in mythtv-setup under "3. Recording Profiles”. They settings have changed since I messed with them long ago!</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I set up a new custom Recording Profile for a Transcode and called it jfa-ts and took the default options to start with. I ran that against one of my recordings and it said error exit status 139. The log shows this error:</div><span style="font-family:monospace"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> E CoreContext recorders/NuppelVideoRecorder.cpp:494 (SetupAVCodecVideo) NVR(): Unable to open FFMPEG/mpeg4 codec</span><br>
<br></span><div>Not sure if I need to install a new codec? My mythtv was installed and updated via the ppa.</div><div><br></div><div>Jim A</div><div> </div></div></div>