[mythtv-users] 0.22-fixes: "Couldn't open file abort.dat"

[Michael T. Dean]

On 04/22/2010 02:49 PM, Jacob Strandlien wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>    
>> On 04/22/2010 02:10 PM, Jacob Strandlien wrote:
>>      
>>> I've had some problems with MythTV recently, and I realized that this
>>> was because my hard drive was full. I traced the problem to my
>>> mythbackend.log files, which were several gigabytes in size. The weird
>>> thing is that the log files are filling with this:
>>>
>>> 2010-04-21 07:47:28.661 Failed to decode frame.  Position was: 0
>>> 2010-04-21 07:47:28.916 Couldn't open file abort.dat
>>>        
>> That should be a transcode problem--like a transcoder spinning
>> endlessly--not a commercial flagging problem.  Check all your
>> transcoder-related directories
> I've already checked the directory where the transcoded files are
> placed on my system, and access rights to that directory seem fine.
> Are there other directories involved in transcoding?
>    

It seems likely that the issue is with a broken video that you're 
transcoding.

Can you upload a 50-100MB section from the very beginning of the file 
you're transcoding to some place on the 'net and send a link to the 
file.  Please make sure the error is reproducible with the sample.

Thanks,
Mike