[mythtv-users] H.264 transcoding

[Rudy Zijlstra]

Steve Daniels wrote:
> Rudy Zijlstra wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> For films i want to store i normally set cutpoints to cut out pre-roll, 
>> post-roll and any advertisements. Then i do a "mythtranscode 
>> --honorcutlist --showprogress -e ps -c xxx -s "date" -o <outfile>" to 
>> get a nice to watch movie.
>>
>> This works well on MPEG2, but on H.264 recordings this fails.
>>
>> Any suggestions? I have no wish to change the coding, quit happy with 
>> the H.264 encoding (any transcoding will only increase file size or 
>> reduce quality).
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Rudy
>>     
>
> What is actually failing? What do you see? What error messages? Etc? Etc?
>
> Steve Daniels
>   

rudy at nedra:/root$ mythtranscode -m --honorcutlist --showprogress -c 
25001 -s "2007-05-20 08:35" -o "/data/huishouden/mythvideo/HD-Film/There's 
something about Mary.mpg"
2007-05-20 13:17:50.710 Using runtime prefix = /usr/local
2007-05-20 13:17:50.754 New DB connection, total: 1
2007-05-20 13:17:50.786 Enabled verbose msgs: important
2007-05-20 13:17:50.792 New DB connection, total: 2
2007-05-20 13:17:51.013 Compiler did not align stack variables. Libavcodec has 
been miscompiled
and may be very slow or crash. This is not a bug in libavcodec,
but in the compiler. Do not report crashes to FFmpeg developers.
2007-05-20 13:17:55.964 0.3% complete
2007-05-20 13:17:59.898 No more queue slots!
rudy at nedra:/root$ mythtranscode -e ps --honorcutlist --showprogress -c 
25001 -s "2007-05-20 08:35" -o "/data/huishouden/mythvideo/HD-Film/There's 
something about Mary.mpg"
2007-05-20 13:18:27.695 Using runtime prefix = /usr/local
2007-05-20 13:18:27.714 New DB connection, total: 1
2007-05-20 13:18:27.726 Enabled verbose msgs: important
2007-05-20 13:18:27.732 New DB connection, total: 2
2007-05-20 13:18:27.784 Connection timed out.          
                        You probably should modify the Master Server 
                        settings in the setup program and set the    
                        proper IP address.
Compiler did not align stack variables. Libavcodec has been miscompiled
and may be very slow or crash. This is not a bug in libavcodec,
but in the compiler. Do not report crashes to FFmpeg developers.
0: start_time: 4801.526 duration: 734.162
1: start_time: 4801.464 duration: 734.171
stream: start_time: 53349.599 duration: 8158.054 bitrate=14556 kb/s
2007-05-20 13:18:28.617 Transcode: Looking for autodetect profile: Autodetect 
from 720p
2007-05-20 13:18:28.620 Transcode: Couldn't find profile for : H.264
2007-05-20 13:18:28.620 Transcoding aborted, no profile found.
2007-05-20 13:18:28.622 Connection timed out.          
                        You probably should modify the Master Server 
                        settings in the setup program and set the    
                        proper IP address.

And yes, Master Server settings are correct.

Cheers,

Rudy