[mythtv-users] mythtranscode silently failing

Joe Auty joe at netmusician.org
Tue Oct 9 13:40:19 UTC 2007


Paul Harrison wrote:
> 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
> 

Unfortunately, no:

$ mythtranscode -c 1405 -s 20071008195308
2007-10-09 09:39:20.911 Using runtime prefix = /usr
2007-10-09 09:39:21.103 New DB connection, total: 1
2007-10-09 09:39:21.246 Enabled verbose msgs: important
2007-10-09 09:39:21.615 New DB connection, total: 2
2007-10-09 09:39:22.330 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 09:39:23.165 New DB connection, total: 3
2007-10-09 09:39:23.279 Unknown video codec:



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