[mythtv-users] re: MPEG2->MPEG4 transcoding under .12

Jesse Perkins perkinsj at hotmail.com
Tue Oct 28 21:10:03 EST 2003


>> > I have a RH9 PVR-350 system and upgraded to .12 today via
>> > sources. I can't get working auto-transcoding from MPEG2
>> > (done in hardware by the PVR-350) to MPEG4. Specifically,
>> > I get the error "Illegal profile : autodetect".
>>
>> The problem turned out to be that the mythtranscode from .11 was running
>> instead of .12. Fixed. (The RPMs installed it to /usr/bin; the sources
>> defaulted to /usr/local/bin.)
>>
>> I then encountered the error "Unknown Video Codec". I changed
>> Transcoders->MPEG2 to use MPEG4, and things now seem to work. I get the
>> message "strange error flushing buffer ...", but that doesn't seem to be
>> fatal.
>>
>> Ellen
>>
>
>I have a simmilar issue.  I installed new from sources, defaulted to
>/usr/local/bin in .12.  It was saying it couldn't find mythtranscode
>because it was looking for it in /usr/bin (seems like a problem in the
>package to me).
>
>However, I now get the "strange error flushing buffer ..." problem, but my
>transcode never completes.  It gets to about 4 megs and stops.  The status
>in the transcoding table is 53.
>
>
>Ben

I got the "strange error flushing buffer" as well and it was fatal.  The
next time I restart mythtv backend, the .tmp files are cleaned up.

Jesse Perkins
perkinsj at hotmail.com


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