[mythtv-users] Transcoding recordings

[Brad Fuller]

Jay R. Ashworth wrote:

>On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 06:02:39PM +0200, KvB wrote:
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>>   I still can't figure out this transcoding thing. One moment when I set
>>   "Start  transcoding" it doesn't do anything at all, the other it works
>>   like  a  charm.  Now, I changed the recording profiles for transcoders
>>   and  set  all  to 720*576 since all my recordings have that resolution
>>   (PAL).  When  I  started  transcoding  a  friends episode yesterday, I
>>   discovered that by the time I woke up this morning, this recording was
>>   9Gb  large  (!) for 25 minutes! Could anyone explain this? Or is there
>>   somewhere a decent manual / HOWTO for transcoding? Thanks!
>>    
>>
>
>Transcoding is done by the back end when it scans it's work queue, so
>it isn't guaranteed to start immediately when you mark something on the
>front end.
>
>That said, we too have problems (.16 and 10/01 CVS) with mythtranscode
>creating files larger than the original -- in some cases *far* larger.
>We had a 1.9GB MPEG-2 episode blow up to 40GB on an MPEG-4 transcode
>the other day.  I'm trying to capture one before we have to kill it,
>for further analysis.
>  
>
I'm wondering if this is my problem with my new/still_creating setup. I 
tried transcoding a show and watched the file in the video dir get 
bigger. Then, I went and did some other stuff. A bit later things 
started going weird - machine started to slowdown. I looked at the 
processes and nothing out of the ordinary at all. I rebooted a bit later 
and then couldn't boot == after a couple of hours seaching I found that 
fstab was there but nothing in it and my swap partition was gone. I 
wouldn't think that this would ever happen except I built this box on a 
20GB drive. So, it's comparitively small setup.

Now, I have no swap partition and my main partition keeps filling up! I 
need to now try and repair this.
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