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KShots
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 Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 3:01 am Post subject: "Transcode failed with status: 247" |
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... and that's all the detail I get from mythtv 0.20. Any ideas what's going on? A quick search didn't pop anything up  .
Here's what I've got:
media-tv/mythtv-0.20_p11444 USE="alsa dts dvd ivtv joystick lcd lirc opengl perl vorbis (-altivec) -backendonly -crciprec -dbox2 -debug -dvb -freebox -frontendonly -hdhomerun -ieee1394 -jack (-mmx) -xvmc" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia -i810 -via"
media-video/transcode-1.0.2-r2 USE="X a52 dv dvdread extrafilters fame gtk imagemagick jpeg mjpeg mp3 mpeg network ogg quicktime sdl theora truetype vorbis xml xvid (-3dnow) (-altivec) -lzo (-mmx) (-sse) (-sse2) -v4l2"
Unfortunately, I can't seem to dig up much of any more useful information (the myth logs are plain abysmal, both in /var/log and in the front end)
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| Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 4:32 am Post subject: |
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| Try running mythbackend with -v jobqueue- I believe that makes it log the command lines it's running for mythtranscode. Then you can run the command yourself and see if you get some more helpful information from mythtranscode directly. |
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KShots
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| Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 2:46 pm Post subject: |
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Hmm... I'll have to keep that list in my bookmarks.
At any rate, it appears that at the moment there's no real solution. Apparently (according to the posters there), mythtranscode simply does not work with the default codecs. There was one poster who got it to work with MPEG4 (which I should probably be using myself, if I can figure out how), but the defaults are not found by mythtranscode.... which brings up another possibility. What are the chances that this is an issue with x86 vs. amd64? I'll bet a significant portion of the board here is running mythtv 0.20 with no problems. Anyone running it on an amd64 and having no problems with transcode?
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| Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 8:47 pm Post subject: |
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Well, just shot down the architecture idea.
I just installed myth on my laptop, which is a pentium 4. Had it hook into my backend on my desktop and it couldn't transcode anything either for the same reason. What gives?
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| Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 9:02 pm Post subject: |
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| KShots wrote: | | Apparently (according to the posters there), mythtranscode simply does not work with the default codecs. There was one poster who got it to work with MPEG4 (which I should probably be using myself, if I can figure out how), but the defaults are not found by mythtranscode.... |
Hmmm- which codec are you coming from? What's your video source? |
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| Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2006 3:31 am Post subject: |
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| Hobbes-X wrote: | | KShots wrote: | | Apparently (according to the posters there), mythtranscode simply does not work with the default codecs. There was one poster who got it to work with MPEG4 (which I should probably be using myself, if I can figure out how), but the defaults are not found by mythtranscode.... |
Hmmm- which codec are you coming from? What's your video source? |
I'm coming from an MPEG-2 encoding (my TV card does MPEG-2 compression by default). I have tried the settings "Autodetect" and "High Quality."
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| Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2006 7:19 am Post subject: |
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If you're using a hardware encoder card, you should have no problems using transcode as far as codecs are concerned. I use it myself for both a PVR250 and a firewire input off of a DCT6200 cable box and have no problems.
Perhaps 'status 247' is a more generic error message and doesn't have anything to do with the codec in your case. Have you tried running mythtranscode from the command line with the same command that myth uses? That should help shine some light on things. At least then we'd know if it's really a codec issue. |
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I had the error status 247, too, and I found it to be a problem with transcode. I ran the same command that mythtv runs to start the transcoding job and transcode complained about missing a codec. I re-emerged transcode again with "lzo", "sdl", and "extrafilters" enabled. Not sure which one of them did it for me, but it now works.
This is what my transcode is built with...
| Code: | | media-video/transcode-1.0.2-r2 USE="3dnow X a52 dv dvdread extrafilters fame gtk imagemagick jpeg lzo mjpeg mmx mp3 mpeg ogg quicktime sdl sse sse2 theora truetype v4l2 vorbis xml xvid (-altivec) -network" |
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This doesn't work for me :/ Any additional hints?
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| Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 10:55 am Post subject: |
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| This thread didn't help me :/ Still the same error message... |
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| Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 1:29 pm Post subject: |
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The problem appears to be the use of the RTJpeg codec - use xvid instead and the problem goes away. Not sure if there's a way to actually use RTJpeg, but switching to xvid resolved this problem for me.
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| Hobbes-X wrote: | | Try running mythbackend with -v jobqueue- I believe that makes it log the command lines it's running for mythtranscode. Then you can run the command yourself and see if you get some more helpful information from mythtranscode directly. |
Recompiling transcode isn't the only potential help in the thread  |
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| Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 1:39 pm Post subject: |
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| KShots wrote: | | The problem appears to be the use of the RTJpeg codec - use xvid instead and the problem goes away. Not sure if there's a way to actually use RTJpeg, but switching to xvid resolved this problem for me. |
Xvid? You sure you're not thinking of nuvexport? RTJpeg comes from frame grabber cards like the bt878's- other sources like ivtv compatible cards and firewire will output MPEG2, and AFAIK the only format mythtranscode outputs is MPEG4. |
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| Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 1:41 pm Post subject: |
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Ah, then I meant MPEG4. There's only two options, RTJpeg and something else (at least on my setup). I use the ivtv driver on a PVR-500.
Check your transcode settings and make sure mythtranscode isn't using RTJpeg
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| Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 3:04 pm Post subject: |
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| KShots wrote: | | Check your transcode settings and make sure mythtranscode isn't using RTJpeg |
Gotcha- You're right about being able to transcode to RTJpeg: http://mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-23.html#ss23.14
@derverstand- If you need info on where to configure the transcoder, the link to the myth docs above has it- while you're checking to make sure that you're not transcoding to RTJpeg, you might want to double check and make sure that you've got a transcoding profile set up that matches your source material. It's been a few years since I set my transcoding up, but IIRC, one of my problems was that I moved from a frame grabbing card to an MPEG2 card and I didn't have an MPEG2 transcoding profile setup. |
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| Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 6:01 pm Post subject: |
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It was the RJPEG stuff 
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