[mythtv-users] Myth-transcode with PVR-250

[Hector Vayanos]

I am currently running version 0.12 of Mythtv (it is running fine and I 
have not seen any reason to upgrade yet).

I am using hardware encoding to mpeg2 through the PVR-250 and I would like 
to transcode these to MPEG4 for archiving purposes. When I configure to 
encode the audio to MP3, the transcoding fails with the error (in 
mythbackend.log): "strange error flushing buffer".

When I configure it to transcode to un-coded audio it runs normally. I 
found some reports where people were recommending to switch to an earlier 
version of lame:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/perl/mailarc/gforum.cgi?post=87677;search_string=mencoder%20seg%20fault;guest=1474458&t=search_engine#87677

However, there were other reports where this solution leads to beeps and 
blips in the audio.

I was wondering whether anyone has been using myth-transcode successfully 
to convert mpeg2 files (from PVR-x50) to mpeg4+mp3 audio on mythtv 0.12. If 
not, if you have looked into the recommendation above...

Thanks,
Hector



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Hector Vayanos
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Qualcomm Inc.

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