[mythtv-users] Ad removal

[Stephen P. Villano]

On 10/16/13 7:04 PM, Daryl McDonald wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 6:53 PM, Stephen P. Villano
> <stephen.p.villano at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 10/16/13 6:19 PM, Daryl McDonald wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 4:54 PM, Eric Sharkey <eric at lisaneric.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>  I haven't had any success transcoding so far.
>>
>> This is really the heart of your problem.  What exactly is in your log
>> files when the transcoding job fails?
>>
>> Eric
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>> I just attempted the transcode again and here is a pastebin of my
>> backend log: http://paste.ubuntu.com/6247939/
>>   around 17:37 Oct 16
>> "Aaron's two minutes of fame"
>>
>> Could it be that dragging and dropping has confused Mythtv
>> sufficiently to cause this problem?
>>
>> Daryl
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>> I noticed a lot of file not found errors when the BE was trying to delete
>> them. Did you move them or manually delete them from outside of mythtv?
>>
>> For the transcode, I noticed a missing file, perhaps the process crashed?
>> Permissions problem? Incorrect storage group setting?
>>
>> Oct 11 17:29:45 daryl-A780L3C mythbackend: mythbackend[2049]: I
>> Transcode_1889 jobqueue.cpp:1991 (DoTranscodeThread) JobQueue: Transcode
>> Starting for "Aaron's Two Minutes of Fame (Manual Record)":"2013-10-11
>> 12:50:00": High Quality (924.2 MB)
>> Oct 11 17:29:45 daryl-A780L3C mythbackend: mythbackend[2049]: I
>> ProcessRequest mainserver.cpp:1430 (HandleAnnounce) MainServer::ANN Playback
>> Oct 11 17:29:45 daryl-A780L3C mythbackend: mythbackend[2049]: I
>> ProcessRequest mainserver.cpp:1432 (HandleAnnounce) adding: daryl-A780L3C as
>> a client (events: 0)
>> Oct 11 17:29:45 daryl-A780L3C mythbackend: mythbackend[2049]: I
>> ProcessRequest mainserver.cpp:1430 (HandleAnnounce) MainServer::ANN Monitor
>> Oct 11 17:29:45 daryl-A780L3C mythbackend: mythbackend[2049]: I
>> ProcessRequest mainserver.cpp:1432 (HandleAnnounce) adding: daryl-A780L3C as
>> a client (events: 1)
>> Oct 11 17:29:45 daryl-A780L3C mythbackend: mythbackend[2049]: E
>> ProcessRequest mainserver.cpp:4777 (HandleDeleteFile) Unable to find
>> 2011_20131011165000.mpg.tmp in HandleDeleteFile()
>>
>>
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> Absolutely, before I had any idea how capable Mythtv is I did a lot of
> what turned out to be very bad things, moving and deleting at will. I
> have touched the deleted files since and don't want to drag and drop
> files anymore. After retouching a cut list in a keeper movie that
> hasn't been moved I'll try the transcode again and see what happens.
> There were a couple of BE crashes and after examining the details of
> the "problem report" (whatever its called) I updated recommended
> packages and haven't had a crash since.
>
> thanks Stephan,
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Been in similar situations before. I tend to shut down the process, such
as the BE, rename the logfile and restart the process.
It'll be a clean log then, easier to figure out what all is going on.