[mythtv-users] nuvexport and ffmpeg-CVS

[Matt]

On 12/16/05, Chris Petersen <lists at forevermore.net> wrote:
> >   First off, thanks a ton for your work on nuvexport and mythweb.
> > I've been following the changes you been committing in SVN for
> > mythweb, nice to see you working hard on that.
>
> :)
>
> > Anyway, thanks for the official word.  I've been wanting to use
> > nuvexport since last spring, but it hasn't worked with the latest
> > ffmpeg.  I'll be happy to use transcode, but even though I've used
> > mythtv for 2 years now I've never used the --transcode flag with
> > nuvexport.  Is it simply "nuvexport --transcode"?  What's the
> > differences and why do you say it's better anyway?
>
> yeah.  --transcode, or just set it up in the nuvexportrc file.
>
> The difference is that it runs transcode instead of ffmpeg.  Different
> encoder, different quality.  For whatever reason, ffmpeg is faster at
> encoding mpeg1/mpeg2 data (ffmpeg is no faster for xvid/divx), but
> transcode looks FAR nicer when it comes to xvid stuff (fewer artifacts,
> etc).
>
> -Chris
> _______________________________________________



I'm having some trouble... when I try to transcode I get:

Now encoding:  Good Eats:  My Big Fat Greek Sandwich
Encode started:  Fri Dec 16 17:31:29 2005
First pass...
Starting transcode.
processed:  0 of 59235 frames (0.00%), 0 fps

Transcode had critical errors:

[transcode] critical: plug-in initialization failed


When I run "nuvexport --debug --transcode" I get this when it starts
to transcode:

To encode:  Good Eats:  My Big Fat Greek Sandwich
Use the following commands:
First pass...

forking:
/usr/bin/nice -n19 transcode -V --print_status 16 --import_asr 2
--export_asr 2 --export_fps 29.970,4 -Z 620x464 -Y 0,-2,0,-2 -i
/mythtv/video/1070_20050407005900_20050407013100.nuv -x mpeg2 -j
10,14,10,14 -J skip="0-2783 12880-18578 28222-34970 43358-49056
56719-59240 " -J smartyuv -J yuvdenoise=mode=2  -y xvid,null  -N 0x55
-b 128,0,2,0 -R 1,/tmp/xvid.8952.log -w 960  -o /dev/null 2>&1
Final pass...

forking:
/usr/bin/nice -n19 transcode -V --print_status 16 --import_asr 2
--export_asr 2 --export_fps 29.970,4 -Z 620x464 -Y 0,-2,0,-2 -i
/mythtv/video/1070_20050407005900_20050407013100.nuv -x mpeg2 -j
10,14,10,14 -J skip="0-2783 12880-18578 28222-34970 43358-49056
56719-59240 " -J smartyuv -J yuvdenoise=mode=2  -y xvid  -N 0x55 -b
128,0,2,0 -R 2,/tmp/xvid.8952.log -w 960  -o "./Good Eats - My Big Fat
Greek Sandwich.avi" 2>&1


Any ideas?