[mythtv-users] Mytharchive errors

[Rod Smith]

On Tuesday 02 December 2008 08:37:15 pm Harry Devine wrote:
> Nick Rout wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Harry Devine <lifter89 at comcast.net> wrote:
> >> 2008-12-01 19:53:16 ERROR: Failed while running ffmpeg to re-encode
> >> video. Command was ffmpeg -y -threads 2 -f s16le -ar 48000 -ac 2 -i
> >> /tmp/work/1/audout -f rawvideo -pix_fmt yuv420p -s 480x480 -aspect
> >> 1.33333 -r 29.97 -i /tmp/work/1/vidout -aspect 1.33333 -r 29.97 -croptop
> >> 0 -cropright 0 -cropbottom 0 -cropleft 0 -s 720x480 -b 4771k -vcodec
> >> mpeg2video -qmin 5 -qmax 31 -qdiff 31 -ab 192k -ar 48000 -acodec ac3 -f
> >> dvd "/tmp/work/1/newfile2.mpg"
> >
> > Try running that command by hand as the same user that runs
> > mytharchive and see if there is a more informative error message.
>
> I just tried that and got:
>
> Unknown input or output format: s161e
>
> What is the -f option supposed to be?  And why would Myth be putting in
> s161e if its not valid?

My best guess is that your version of ffmpeg doesn't support s161e, but the 
MythArchive script expects it to have that support. What Linux distribution 
are you using, and from where did you install MythTV and ffmpeg? You might be 
able to fix things by removing your current ffmpeg and re-installing it from 
another source. It's also conceivable that you could get it working by 
installing a support package of some sort, but I don't know what package to 
suggest, offhand. (My knowledge of the tangled Web of audio and video codecs, 
and the packages that support them, is limited at best.)

-- 
Rod Smith