[mythtv-users] mytharchive fails on mpeg4 transcoded file

[Paul Harrison]

stanley kamithi wrote:
>
> the latest ffmpeg resync  appears to have nuv support
>
> libs/libavformat/nuv.c
>
> i'm trying to get mytharchive to do its thing with mpeg4 nuv files 
> generated from a plextor m402u.
>
> almost there ..i think i need to upgrade the regular ffmpeg stuff to 
> the latest ffmpeg revision to get the nuv support.
>
> ====================
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>
> 2006-05-29 22:48:37 Obtaining MythTV settings from MySQL database for 
> hostname localhost
> 2006-05-29 22:48:37 Obtaining date and time settings from MySQL 
> database for hostname localhost
> 2006-05-29 22:48:37 Processing Mythburn job number 1.
> 2006-05-29 22:48:37 Options - mediatype = 3, doburn = 0, createiso = 
> 1, erasedvdrw = 0
> 2006-05-29 22:48:37           savefilename = 
> '/home/skarundi/mythtv/mytharchive/'
> 2006-05-29 22:48:37 Looking for: 
> /usr/share/mythtv/mytharchive/themes/Compact/theme.xml
> 2006-05-29 22:48:37 Loading font 0, /usr/share/mythtv/FreeSans.ttf size 19
> 2006-05-29 22:48:37 Loading font 1, /usr/share/mythtv/FreeSans.ttf size 15
> 2006-05-29 22:48:37 Loading font 2, /usr/share/mythtv/FreeSans.ttf size 13
> 2006-05-29 22:48:37 wantIntro: 1, wantMainMenu: 1, wantChapterMenu:0, 
> wantDetailsPage: 0
> 2006-05-29 22:48:37 Final DVD Video format will be ntsc
> 2006-05-29 22:48:37 There are 1 files to process
> 2006-05-29 22:48:37 Pre-processing file '1048_20060522212122.nuv' of 
> type 'recording'
> 2006-05-29 22:48:37           Heavy: The Story of Metal
> 2006-05-29 22:48:39 Video resolution is 720 by 480
> 2006-05-29 22:48:39 
> *************************************************************
> 2006-05-29 22:48:39 Processing file 1048_20060522212122.nuv of type 
> recording
> 2006-05-29 22:48:39 
> *************************************************************
> 2006-05-29 22:48:39 File type is 'nuv'
> 2006-05-29 22:48:39 Video codec is 'mpeg4'
> 2006-05-29 22:48:40 Preferred audio languages aar and aar
> 2006-05-29 22:48:40 Video id: 0x0, Audio1: [1] 0x1 (MP3, N/A), Audio2: 
> [-1] - 0x-1 (N/A, N/A)
> 2006-05-29 22:48:40 Unknown aspect ratio 2.000000 - Using 16:9
> 2006-05-29 22:48:40 File is not DVD compliant - Re-encoding audio and 
> video
> 2006-05-29 22:48:40 ffmpeg -v 1 -i 
> "i/mythtv/recordings/1048_20060522212122.nuv" -r ntsc -target dvd -b 
> 3000 -s 720x480 -ab 192 -ac 2 -copyts -aspect 16:9 
> /home/skarundi/mythtv/tmp/work/1/newfile2.mpg -map 0:0 -map 0:1
> 2006-05-29 22:48:40 
> ************************************************************
> 2006-05-29 22:48:40 ERROR: Failed while running ffmpeg to re-encode video.
> Command was ffmpeg -v 1 -i 
> "/mythtv/recordings/1048_20060522212122.nuv" -r ntsc -target dvd -b 
> 3000 -s 720x480 -ab 192 -ac 2 -copyts -aspect 16:9 
> /home/skarundi/mythtv/tmp/work/1/newfile2.mpg -map 0:0 -map 0:1
> 2006-05-29 22:48:40 
> ************************************************************
> 2006-05-29 22:48:40
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>   
Yep thats good news :-). Looks like mytharchivehelper is getting the 
stream information OK now from the nuv file.  Like you say you will have 
to update ffmpeg to use the latest libavcodec/libavformat so it can also 
read the nuv files which can then be re-encode to mpeg2.

Paul H.