[mythtv-users] How to transcode HD recording

John Pilkington J.Pilk at tesco.net
Fri Jan 3 16:47:33 UTC 2014


On 03/01/14 13:10, plainface boy wrote:
> When I want to keep a TV recording I usually create a cut list to remove
> adverts and manually transcode on 'High Quality' (lossless, no resize)
> to remove them. It works fine, except on a couple of HD recordings I
> have. The cut list saves and the recordings playback without the adverts
> but transcode does not actually remove them.
> It appears to run, but finishes quite quickly and the cut list is still
> there.
> Some info from backend log is below.....22200_20140102225400.mpg is the
> file of the recording I'm trying to transcode.
> Not sure where it's looking for the tmp file, but my tmp folder and
> var/tmp folder have enough room for a 13GB file...
> I've seen other posts about a similar error, but not any solutions, so
> thanks for any help!
>
> Jan  3 11:00:04 ....mythbackend: mythbackend[1562]: I Transcode_900
> jobqueue.cpp:1991 (DoTranscodeThread) JobQueue: Transcode Starting for
> .....": High Quality (13.2 GB)
> Jan  3 11:00:05 .... mythbackend: mythbackend[1562]: I ProcessRequest
> mainserver.cpp:1420 (HandleAnnounce) MainServer::ANN Monitor
> Jan  3 11:00:05 ....mythbackend: mythbackend[1562]: I ProcessRequest
> mainserver.cpp:1422 (HandleAnnounce) adding: ... as a client (events: 0)
> Jan  3 11:00:05 .... mythbackend: mythbackend[1562]: I ProcessRequest
> mainserver.cpp:1420 (HandleAnnounce) MainServer::ANN Monitor
> Jan  3 11:00:05 .... mythbackend: mythbackend[1562]: I ProcessRequest
> mainserver.cpp:1422 (HandleAnnounce) adding: .... as a client (events: 1)
> Jan  3 11:00:05 .... mythbackend: mythbackend[1562]: E ProcessRequest
> mainserver.cpp:4784 (HandleDeleteFile) Unable to find
> 22200_20140102225400.mpg.tmp in HandleDeleteFile()
> Jan  3 11:00:06 .... mythbackend: mythbackend[1562]: I Transcode_900
> jobqueue.cpp:2087 (DoTranscodeThread) JobQueue: Transcode Errored:
> ....": High Quality (exit status 255, job status was "Errored")

Other recent threads have been trying to downsize.  You are trying to 
use lossless cutting, which AIUI works only with mpeg2 recordings.  I 
may have overlooked clues about what your HD format is, but you may need 
another tool.







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