[mythtv-users] Auto transcode and commercial cutting not happening

[Robert Tsai]

On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 11:23:42AM +0900, Craig Hagerman wrote:
> On 9/22/05, Kevin Kuphal <kuphal at dls.net> wrote:
> > I believe Adam accurately answered your question about the NUV.  As for
> > the commerical flagging, you notice that it is "flagging", not "cutting"
> > that is done.  If you are looking for how to automatically convert your
> > commercial flags into a cutlist used by transcoding, search the list
> > archives for a thread titled "Automatically load commercial skip list
> > into cutlist" and you'll see that Chris Pinkham gave an excellent
> > example of how to do this just 5 days ago.
> >
> 
> Thanks Kevin, I am embarrassed that I missed that.
> If I understand things correctly, mythtv calls mythtranscode after it
> finishes recording. I tried using mythtranscode from the command line
> to see what is happening and it failed:
> 
> %mythtranscode -i 1058_20050921163000_20050921170000.nuv -f foo.avi
> 
> Stream: 0 Type: 0
> Stream: 1 Type: 1
> Input #0, mpeg, from '1058_20050921163000_20050921170000.nuv':
>   Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg2video, 480x480, 29.97 fps, 6000 kb/s
>   Stream #0.1: Audio: mp2, 48000 Hz, stereo, 384 kb/s
> mythtranscode: mpeg2trans.cpp:668: bool
> MPEG2trans::process_video(AVPacket*, bool): Assertion `0' failed.
> Aborted
> 
> So perhaps my problems are with mythtranscode and NOT incorrect
> settings. Any one have any idea on what this error message means and
> how to fix it?

You are using the wrong command-line arguments. You need to be using
"-s" and "-c":

	% mythtranscode -c 1025 -s 2005-04-28T19:30:00

Easiest thing to do is to use Myth frontend to Start Transcoding, and
use "ps" to see what is going on.

--Rob
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