[mythtv-users] Transcoding with RTJPEG failing

[Matt Emmott]

I'm recording SD video from the a direct coax in on my PVR-150 card. From
within the frontend GUI I've attempted to transcode a 1 hour recording of
General Hospital (Not for me, I swear) using the Low Quality and Medium
Quality default transcode options. Both fail - The error in the queue status
is "exit status 255, job status was 'Errored'". I dug up some more info from
the backend log:

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2008-04-17 19:48:40.757 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
localhost
2008-04-17 19:48:40.761 Transcoding from
/var/lib/mythtv/recordings/1005_20080417150000.mpg to
/var/lib/mythtv/recordings/1005_20080417150000.mpg.tmp
2008-04-17 19:48:40.796 Connecting to backend server: 127.0.0.1:6543 (try 1
of 5)
2008-04-17 19:48:40.817 Using protocol version 40
2008-04-17 19:48:40.823 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
2008-04-17 19:48:40.827 adding: magic as a client (events: 0)
2008-04-17 19:48:40.828 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
2008-04-17 19:48:40.829 adding: magic as a client (events: 1)
2008-04-17 19:48:41.004 AFD: Opened codec 0xb4016dc0, id(MPEG2VIDEO)
type(Video)
2008-04-17 19:48:41.014 AFD: codec MP2 has 2 channels
2008-04-17 19:48:41.015 AFD: Opened codec 0xb4017230, id(MP2) type(Audio)
2008-04-17 19:48:41.125 No video information found!
2008-04-17 19:48:41.126 Please ensure that recording profiles for the
transcoder are set
2008-04-17 19:48:41.127 Transcoding
/var/lib/mythtv/recordings/1005_20080417150000.mpg failed
2008-04-17 19:48:41.135 Deleting
/var/lib/mythtv/recordings/1005_20080417150000.mpg.tmp
2008-04-17 19:48:41.161 JobQueue: Transcode Errored: General Hospital:
Medium Quality (exit status 255, job status was "Errored")
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The only information that seems important to me is the "No video information
found!" error. I'm attempting a transcode using MPEG-4 now and it's at 59%
completed (at an impressive 78 fps on my dual core Pentium) so it's
definitely gotten further than RTJPEG. Anybody have any ideas? I'm running
Mythbuntu 7.10 upgraded to MythTV .21. Kernel version is 2.6.22-14-generic
#1 SMP

Thanks,
Matt
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