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

[Ben Curtis]

> > 1) libavcodec is in the myth .12 package, but doesn't seem to get 
> > installed anywhere. 
> 
> Why would that get installed anywhere? 
>
*snip*
> Why would it install source files once they're compiled? 
>

I wasn't sure if it was compiled in static, or if it needed to be linked.  
This is why I was asking what mythtranscode actually calls/does.  Makes 
perfect sense to not be installed if they are just used for source files 
though.

> > 4) Status get's set to 20 in the DB at start. Then by the time it 
> fails 
> > (a few seconds later) it is 53. 
> 
> All that says is that it started, then failed. 

OK, so I know it's segfaulting after it writes to the DB, and after it 
knows that somethings wrong.

> Since the recording profile stuff didn't _exist_ in 0.11, it never got 
> tested 
> on a 0.11 system. 
> 
> What bin files are being looked for in the wrong place? mythbackend 
> launches 
> 'mythtranscode' without any explicit path at all whenever it starts a 
> transcode. It's up to the path setup on your system to find the actual 
> binary. 
>

Until I put a link from /usr/bin/mythtranscode to 
/usr/local/bin/mythtranscode it wasn't working.  It was saying not found.  
I checked my path after you mentioned there was no explicit path, but 
/usr/local/bin is in there.  I remember from previous conversations there 
was someone else with a fresh install that had the same issue.

> All you need to do is go setup the Transcoders -> MPEG2 settings, since 
> you're 
> coming from MPEG2. Not the Transcoders -> RTjpeg/MPEG4 settings. 
>

I just read this sentence like 5 times, and finally it occurs to me that I 
might be looking at the transcoders in the wrong way.  The transcoder 
screen is for Transcoding "from", while I was thinking Transcoding "to".  
When I get home tonight I'll take a look at these settings again.

If that fixes it, I'll send you my address and you can mail me a shoe that 
I can kick myself with for you :)


Ben