[mythtv-users] converting mp4 and trans coding failing

[Michael T. Dean]

On 10/30/2014 06:00 PM, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
> Thursday, October 30, 2014, 10:52:36 PM, you wrote:
>
>> I your right  I added this to /etc/local.conf the error went away
>> LC_COLLATE=C
>> LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
>> LANGUAGE="en_US.UTF-8"
>> I also added looses trans coding option in mythtv-setup and I will see if that helps.
>> Is there script that will conver my recordings to mkv or mp4 and
>> put them in proper folder based on show name and season.
> I don't know, but it also complains about nl_NL.UTF-8 which it
> shouldn't and all works OK.

No, it is not complaining about 'nl_NL' and if it is complaining, all 
doesn't work OK (you just haven't tried doing the things that won't work 
with a bad codeset).

The message means you haven't properly specified 'nl_NL.UTF-8' in the 
environment in which the MythTV application is running.  So the first 
thing to check is that it's specified in the environment running (all) 
MythTV applications (i.e. the environment set up by your system start 
scripts/service and/or the environment set up by login for the user that 
(directly) runs MythTV applications or the environment set up by the 
script that runs the MythTV applications as the mythtv user (for example 
in a distro with a mythfrontend and mythfrontend.real)).

If all looks good there, then you're probably specifying LANG as 
'nl_NL.UTF-8', but also have LC_* variables set.  The LANG environment 
variable is the old way that language (and to some extent, codeset) 
information was specified.  However, since it's just one value, the 
modern approach of using LC_* variables (to allow specifying different 
values for different pieces) was developed.  If you've specified 
LC_CTYPE (set directly or using LC_ALL) and specified LANG, the LANG is 
ignored since the LC_* variables are preferred.  LANG is just a 
(basically deprecated) fallback when no LC_* variables are specified.

Mike