[mythtv-users] mythtranscode silently failing

[Paul Harrison]

Joe Auty wrote:
> Hello,
>
> For some reason, a plain old vanilla mythtranscode -i <video file>
> silently fails for me in Ubuntu Fiesty x64:
>
>
> # mythtranscode -i 1405_20071008195308.mpg
> 2007-10-09 00:30:05.654 Using runtime prefix = /usr
> 2007-10-09 00:30:05.665 New DB connection, total: 1
> 2007-10-09 00:30:05.671 Enabled verbose msgs: important
> 2007-10-09 00:30:05.674 New DB connection, total: 2
> 2007-10-09 00:30:05.725 Using protocol version 31
> 0: start_time: 6.790 duration: 56.889
> 1: start_time: 6.763 duration: 56.886
> stream: start_time: 75.145 duration: 632.395 bitrate=5192 kb/s
> 2007-10-09 00:30:05.955 New DB connection, total: 3
> 2007-10-09 00:30:05.964 Unknown video codec:
>
>
>
> I do have ffmpeg installed.
>
> Any idea what might be causing this?
>
>
>   
Does it work if you use the chanid and starttime something like:-
mythtranscode -c 1405 -s 20071008195308

Paul H.