[mythtv-users] transcode mp4 to mythtv playback capable file
Tim Draper
veehexx at zoho.com
Wed Jun 22 19:29:58 UTC 2016
---- On Wed, 22 Jun 2016 20:11:02 +0100 Tim Draper <veehexx at zoho.com> wrote ----
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> ---- On Wed, 22 Jun 2016 10:41:42 +0100 John Pilkington <J.Pilk at tesco.net> wrote ----
> > On 22/06/16 09:55, Tim Draper wrote:
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> > > ahh... "mythffmpeg". i've been using ffmpeg with similar switches (i tried a few, non worked)
> > > I'll play the test file i've just created tonight and see if it works.
> > > thanks
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> > mythffmpeg is packaged in mythtv, mainly to avoid what used to be
> > frequent changes in the ffmpeg interfaces. They may differ in your box.
> > See (myth)ffmpeg --version
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> still getting issues with the aformentioned mythffmpeg output file.
> # mythbackend -v playback,decode,file
> ...
> 2016-06-22 19:39:25.718577 E SG(Videos): FindFile: Unable to find '24h_lemans/test1.mkv/VIDEO_TS'!
> 2016-06-22 19:39:25.719549 E SG(Videos): FindFile: Unable to find '24h_lemans/test1.mkv/BDMV'!
> 2016-06-22 19:39:25.817656 E SG(Videos): FindFile: Unable to find '24h_lemans/test1.mkv'!
> 2016-06-22 19:39:25.822068 I MainServer::ANN Playback
> 2016-06-22 19:39:25.822073 I adding: myth-fe1 as a client (events: 0)
> 2016-06-22 19:39:25.826748 I MainServer::HandleAnnounce FileTransfer
> 2016-06-22 19:39:25.826751 I adding: myth-fe1 as a remote file transfer
> 2016-06-22 19:39:25.827783 E SG(Videos): FindFile: Unable to find '/24h_lemans/test1.mkv'!
> 2016-06-22 19:39:25.827787 E ERROR: LocalFilePath unable to find local path for 'test1.mkv'.
> 2016-06-22 19:39:25.827792 E Empty filename, cowardly aborting!
> ...
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> not being too familiar with how the output should look, my video SG is pointing to /mnt/data/videos/. 24h_lemans/ folder is then within this location.
> permissions of this specific file are 777, and mythtv can play the other files in the 'video' SG fine.
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should of probably included the mythffmpeg -i output of the bad file:
$ ffmpeg -i 24h_lemans/test1.mkv
ffmpeg version 2.8.7 Copyright (c) 2000-2016 the FFmpeg developers
built with gcc 5.3.1 (GCC) 20160406 (Red Hat 5.3.1-6)
configuration: <...SNIPPED...>
libavutil 54. 31.100 / 54. 31.100
libavcodec 56. 60.100 / 56. 60.100
libavformat 56. 40.101 / 56. 40.101
libavdevice 56. 4.100 / 56. 4.100
libavfilter 5. 40.101 / 5. 40.101
libavresample 2. 1. 0 / 2. 1. 0
libswscale 3. 1.101 / 3. 1.101
libswresample 1. 2.101 / 1. 2.101
libpostproc 53. 3.100 / 53. 3.100
Input #0, matroska,webm, from '24h_lemans/test1.mkv':
Metadata:
COMPATIBLE_BRANDS: mp41isom
MAJOR_BRAND : mp42
MINOR_VERSION : 0
ENCODER : Lavf54.63.104
Duration: 00:35:13.67, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 15468 kb/s
Stream #0:0(und): Video: h264 (High), yuv420p(tv, smpte170m/smpte170m/bt470m), 1920x1080 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 60 fps, 60 tbr, 1k tbn, 120 tbc (default)
Metadata:
LANGUAGE : und
HANDLER_NAME : VideoHandler
Stream #0:1(und): Audio: aac (LC), 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp (default)
Metadata:
LANGUAGE : und
HANDLER_NAME : SoundHandler
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and a working file:
$ ffmpeg -i working.mkv
ffmpeg version 2.8.7 Copyright (c) 2000-2016 the FFmpeg developers
built with gcc 5.3.1 (GCC) 20160406 (Red Hat 5.3.1-6)
configuration: <..SNIPPED..>
libavutil 54. 31.100 / 54. 31.100
libavcodec 56. 60.100 / 56. 60.100
libavformat 56. 40.101 / 56. 40.101
libavdevice 56. 4.100 / 56. 4.100
libavfilter 5. 40.101 / 5. 40.101
libavresample 2. 1. 0 / 2. 1. 0
libswscale 3. 1.101 / 3. 1.101
libswresample 1. 2.101 / 1. 2.101
libpostproc 53. 3.100 / 53. 3.100
Input #0, matroska,webm, from 'working.mkv':
Metadata:
encoder : libebml v1.3.3 + libmatroska v1.4.4
creation_time : 2016-04-20 05:13:02
Duration: 00:42:21.24, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 3441 kb/s
Stream #0:0: Video: h264 (High), yuv420p(tv, bt709/unknown/unknown), 1280x720, SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9, 29.97 fps, 29.97 tbr, 1k tbn, 59.94 tbc (default)
Metadata:
BPS : 3055008
BPS-eng : 3055008
DURATION : 00:42:21.239000000
DURATION-eng : 00:42:21.239000000
NUMBER_OF_FRAMES: 76161
NUMBER_OF_FRAMES-eng: 76161
NUMBER_OF_BYTES : 970438429
NUMBER_OF_BYTES-eng: 970438429
_STATISTICS_WRITING_APP: mkvmerge v9.0.1 ('Obstacles') 64bit
_STATISTICS_WRITING_APP-eng: mkvmerge v9.0.1 ('Obstacles') 64bit
_STATISTICS_WRITING_DATE_UTC: 2016-04-20 05:13:02
_STATISTICS_WRITING_DATE_UTC-eng: 2016-04-20 05:13:02
_STATISTICS_TAGS: BPS DURATION NUMBER_OF_FRAMES NUMBER_OF_BYTES
_STATISTICS_TAGS-eng: BPS DURATION NUMBER_OF_FRAMES NUMBER_OF_BYTES
Stream #0:1: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, 5.1(side), fltp, 384 kb/s (default)
Metadata:
BPS : 383944
BPS-eng : 383944
DURATION : 00:42:21.134000000
DURATION-eng : 00:42:21.134000000
NUMBER_OF_FRAMES: 79399
NUMBER_OF_FRAMES-eng: 79399
NUMBER_OF_BYTES : 121956864
NUMBER_OF_BYTES-eng: 121956864
_STATISTICS_WRITING_APP: mkvmerge v9.0.1 ('Obstacles') 64bit
_STATISTICS_WRITING_APP-eng: mkvmerge v9.0.1 ('Obstacles') 64bit
_STATISTICS_WRITING_DATE_UTC: 2016-04-20 05:13:02
_STATISTICS_WRITING_DATE_UTC-eng: 2016-04-20 05:13:02
_STATISTICS_TAGS: BPS DURATION NUMBER_OF_FRAMES NUMBER_OF_BYTES
_STATISTICS_TAGS-eng: BPS DURATION NUMBER_OF_FRAMES NUMBER_OF_BYTES
Stream #0:2(eng): Subtitle: subrip (default)
Metadata:
BPS : 72
BPS-eng : 72
DURATION : 00:42:13.296000000
DURATION-eng : 00:42:13.296000000
NUMBER_OF_FRAMES: 705
NUMBER_OF_FRAMES-eng: 705
NUMBER_OF_BYTES : 23109
NUMBER_OF_BYTES-eng: 23109
_STATISTICS_WRITING_APP: mkvmerge v9.0.1 ('Obstacles') 64bit
_STATISTICS_WRITING_APP-eng: mkvmerge v9.0.1 ('Obstacles') 64bit
_STATISTICS_WRITING_DATE_UTC: 2016-04-20 05:13:02
_STATISTICS_WRITING_DATE_UTC-eng: 2016-04-20 05:13:02
_STATISTICS_TAGS: BPS DURATION NUMBER_OF_FRAMES NUMBER_OF_BYTES
_STATISTICS_TAGS-eng: BPS DURATION NUMBER_OF_FRAMES NUMBER_OF_BYTES
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