[mythtv-users] Still can't transcode. Anyone?

James Pifer jep at obrien-pifer.com
Fri Sep 10 06:57:31 EDT 2004


On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 10:33, James Pifer wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 15:56, James Pifer wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 15:17, Ryan Steffes wrote:
> > > > Well, I do see it in the log now(not sure why I didn't before).
I'm
> > > > getting the following:
> > > > 
> > > > 2004-09-07 14:31:05 Transcoding from
> > > > /mythtv/recordings/1005_20040823072800_20040823080000.nuv to
> > > > /mythtv/recordings/1005_20040823072800_20040823080000.nuv.tmp
> > > > Input #0, mpeg, from
> > > > '/mythtv/recordings/1005_20040823072800_20040823080000.nuv':
> > > >   Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg2video, 480x480, 29.97 fps
> > > >   Stream #0.1: Audio: mp2, 48000 Hz, stereo, 384 kb/s
> > > > strange error flushing buffer ...
> > > > 2004-09-07 14:33:05 Transcoding
> > > > /mythtv/recordings/1005_20040823072800_20040823080000.nuv failed
> > > > 2004-09-07 14:33:06 Deleting
> > > > /mythtv/recordings/1005_20040823072800_20040823080000.nuv.tmp
> > > > 
> > > > Trying to find a solution for "strange error flushing buffer
...".
> > > > Possible things so far are, disable ACPI if it available,
disable PCI
> > > > devices not in use, and upgrade the BIOS if available. Don't
know if any
> > > > of those were successful before.
> > > > 
> > > > Any other possible solutions?
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > James
> > > 
> > > IIRC the strange error is actually kicked out from ffmpeg.  To get
> > > passed the basic formalities, you do have something configured in
the
> > > software recording profiles, right?
> > > 
> > >
______________________________________________________________________
> > Yes, I have two profiles.  Under Setup/TV Settings/Recording
Profiles I
> > have one for the PVR350 and one for Transcode. Under Transcode I
have
> > >From RTjpeg/MPEG4 and From MPEG2. From MPEG2 is configure to use
MPEG-4
> > codec. Everything else is pretty much defaults. 
> > 
> > Is that what you're talking about?
> > 
> > James
> > 

Can anyone assist with this? I've turned off ACPI and Plug and Play in
the BIOS. What does "strange error flushing buffer ..." mean? As a
refresher, this is running 0.15.1 on Redhat 9 with ivtv
ivtv-0.1.10-pre2-ck100z.

Thanks,
James




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