Hi,

I followed the WIKI to install the ipod script for DviX, but I get an error:
Waiting for mythtranscode to set up the fifos.

Does anyone know how I can fix this?

Regards,
Victor

Anyone gotten this to work for R5E50?

I'm tempted to try it, but it looks like a lot of tinkering and my system is the most stable its been in years. I don't want to mess that up.

Out of the box, no. With using an updated nuvexport, Yes,
But using the nuvexport --transcode option rather than --ffmpeg. Off the top of my head I remember I had to upgrade nuvexport and modify a file to disable VCD and SVCD as they were broken and not allowing nuvexport to run.

I did my upgrade to Nuvexport a while ago so all the problems may be fixed in current version of Nuvexport.

http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=13234

spalVI,
How did you installed and configured it? Somehow, it won't work on my system...

Try having a look under Utilities/Setup->Setup->Media Settings->Archive File Settings->2nd Screen.

Bruce S.

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I'm getting this error with your mp4 script. Any suggestions? The first pass went ok. But it fails on the second pass.

tomp4 1071_20070407010600.mpg
MEncoder dev-SVN-r23161-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz (Family: 15, Model: 4, Stepping: 1)
CPUflags: Type: 15 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2

success: format: 0 data: 0x0 - 0x3f5dd6c
TS file format detected.
VIDEO MPEG2(pid=49) AUDIO A52(pid=52) NO SUBS (yet)! PROGRAM N. 1
VIDEO: MPEG2 1280x720 (aspect 3) 59.940 fps 15500.0 kbps (1937.5 kbyte/s)
[V] filefmt:29 fourcc:0x10000002 size:1280x720 fps:59.94 ftime:=0.0167
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52
Using SSE optimized IMDCT transform
Using MMX optimized resampler
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 384.0 kbit/25.00% (ratio: 48000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [a52] afm: liba52 (AC3-liba52)
==========================================================================
Opening video filter: [expand osd=1]
Expand: -1 x -1, -1 ; -1, osd: 1, aspect: 0.000000, round: 1
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
VDec: vo config request - 1280 x 720 (preferred colorspace: Mpeg PES)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
Try appending the scale filter to your filter list,
e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
VDecoder init failed
Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder libmpeg2-v0.4.0b
Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm: libmpeg2 (MPEG-1 or 2 (libmpeg2))
==========================================================================
MP3 audio selected.
VDec: vo config request - 1280 x 720 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
videocodec: libavcodec (1280x720 fourcc=34504d46 [FMP4])
[VE_LAVC] High quality encoding selected (non-realtime)!
New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong.
Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf).
subtitle font: load_sub_face failed.
Pos: 0.0s 1f ( 1%) 0.00fps Trem: 0min 0mb A-V:0.000 [0:0]
1 duplicate frame(s)!
Writing header...
ODML: vprp aspect is 4:3.
Writing header...
ODML: vprp aspect is 4:3.
Writing header...2f ( 1%) 0.00fps Trem: 0min 0mb A-V:-0.002 [0:0]
ODML: vprp aspect is 4:3.

1 duplicate frame(s)!
Pos: 0.4s 21f ( 2%) 20.85fps Trem: 0min 11mb A-V:-0.033 [0:0]
1 duplicate frame(s)!
Pos: 0.5s 31f ( 3%) 21.63fps Trem: 0min 10mb A-V:-0.033 [0:126]
1 duplicate frame(s)!
Pos: 0.7s 41f ( 3%) 21.94fps Trem: 0min 10mb A-V:-0.033 [0:124]
1 duplicate frame(s)!
Pos: 0.9s 51f ( 4%) 22.14fps Trem: 0min 9mb A-V:-0.033 [0:124]
1 duplicate frame(s)!
Pos: 1.1s 61f ( 4%) 22.34fps Trem: 0min 9mb A-V:-0.033 [3561:124]


MEncoder dev-SVN-r23161-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz (Family: 15, Model: 4, Stepping: 1)
CPUflags: Type: 15 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2

success: format: 0 data: 0x0 - 0x3f5dd6c
TS file format detected.
VIDEO MPEG2(pid=49) AUDIO A52(pid=52) NO SUBS (yet)! PROGRAM N. 1
VIDEO: MPEG2 1280x720 (aspect 3) 59.940 fps 15500.0 kbps (1937.5 kbyte/s)
[V] filefmt:29 fourcc:0x10000002 size:1280x720 fps:59.94 ftime:=0.0167
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52
Using SSE optimized IMDCT transform
Using MMX optimized resampler
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 384.0 kbit/25.00% (ratio: 48000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [a52] afm: liba52 (AC3-liba52)
==========================================================================
File not found: ''
Failed to open .
Cannot open output file ''.

Exiting...

I'm really trying to get the x264 script working. Just like the mp4 script it fails on the second pass.

Flushing video frames.
Writing index...
Writing header...
ODML: vprp aspect is 4:3.
Setting audio delay to 0.024s.

Video stream: 4037.846 kbit/s (504730 B/s) size: 18609504 bytes 36.870 secs 2195 frames

Audio stream: 122.989 kbit/s (15373 B/s) size: 560832 bytes 36.480 secs
x264 [info]: slice I:10 Avg QP:23.00 size: 35212
x264 [info]: slice P:829 Avg QP:26.00 size: 13335
x264 [info]: slice B:1354 Avg QP:28.00 size: 5319
x264 [info]: mb I I16..4: 68.0% 0.0% 32.0%
x264 [info]: mb P I16..4: 12.1% 0.0% 6.3% P16..4: 18.6% 5.6% 1.8% 0.0% 0.0% skip:55.6%
x264 [info]: mb B I16..4: 0.7% 0.0% 0.9% B16..8: 11.8% 0.0% 0.0% direct:11.1% skip:75.5%
x264 [info]: kb/s:4068.9
MEncoder dev-SVN-r23161-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz (Family: 15, Model: 4, Stepping: 1)
CPUflags: Type: 15 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2

Option x264encopts: Bad argument me=2
success: format: 0 data: 0x0 - 0x3f5dd6c
TS file format detected.
VIDEO MPEG2(pid=49) AUDIO A52(pid=52) NO SUBS (yet)! PROGRAM N. 1
VIDEO: MPEG2 1280x720 (aspect 3) 59.940 fps 15500.0 kbps (1937.5 kbyte/s)
[V] filefmt:29 fourcc:0x10000002 size:1280x720 fps:59.94 ftime:=0.0167
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52
Using SSE optimized IMDCT transform
Using MMX optimized resampler
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 384.0 kbit/25.00% (ratio: 48000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [a52] afm: liba52 (AC3-liba52)
==========================================================================
Opening video filter: [expand osd=1]
Expand: -1 x -1, -1 ; -1, osd: 1, aspect: 0.000000, round: 1
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
VDec: vo config request - 1280 x 720 (preferred colorspace: Mpeg PES)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
Try appending the scale filter to your filter list,
e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
VDecoder init failed
Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder libmpeg2-v0.4.0b
Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm: libmpeg2 (MPEG-1 or 2 (libmpeg2))
==========================================================================
MP3 audio selected.
There are no EDL actions to take care of.
VDec: vo config request - 1280 x 720 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
[swscaler @ 0x87dc538]SwScaler: using unscaled yuv420p -> yuv420p special converter
FATAL: Cannot initialize video driver.

Exiting...

Ok, I am lost now.

I setup the XviDEncoding as mentioned in the wiki (http://www.knoppmythwiki.org/index.php? ... iDEncoding).

If I run the command "/usr/local/bin/myth2xvid "%DIR%" "%FILE%" " from the commandline it is working ok!

I also configured in mythtv-setup and under General, setup one of your User Jobs to run this script (/usr/local/bin/myth2xvid "%DIR%" "%FILE%").

But, when I want to encode an individual file to the feed by hitting the info button on a recording in the Watch Recordings screen, then selecting Job Options, Encode for XviD, it is doing nothing!!?? At least, I don't see anything happen in the TOP and no files or logging is created.

How do I have to use it? Did I do something wrong here? I am realy lost now....

Thanks for your ideas...

Ok, Since you can now run it from the command line I will assume you got the script Nuvexport stuff working.

Does the mythtv user have permissions to run usr/local/bin/myth2xvid ?

What does below command output?


The mythtv user will need x to the file to start that script.

Crap, I see some of the WIKI got corrupted too "–" charters all over. I may have made an offline copy of that howto.

@dwaine I never played with x264, but it looks like you are using MEncoder. You look at the nuvexport guide on MythTV wiki?

Also is this wiki guide http://www.knoppmythwiki.org/index.php? ... DArchiving ,

My output:


Could the problem be that in R5E50 all the recordings are stored in the pretty folder with userfriendly names? (titile of the show in the file)

No, The recordings are stored in /myth/tv /myth/pretty is symlinks with readable names to the mpg or nuv files in /myth/tv

Check you status of jobs in Information Menu>System Status to see if the job is running or just failed.

I was not aware that you were able to see the status of the job. That is handy to know

I see in the Job Queue that my job status is Queued. The status is not changing in time and still is Queued, the job is started a few days ago.
Why is that? Quite funny because my box has almost no loading.

Try stopping the job, from queue. I fixed the WIKI typos may want to review again. To answer your earlier question on how I got it working with R5E50. Bascially I just went by the WIKI from R5D1, updated Nuvexport according to Cecil's directions here.
http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=79265
and fixed some lines in /usr/local/bin/nuvexport detailed in this thread

http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=13607 (4th post from top by me)

However since all these fixes I have moved to MythTV and Nuvexport SVN so my system is now very different from a vanilla R5E50 install.

When U say you tested myth2xivd from console do you mean you ran something like?



That command is all that the myth2xvid script is running from MythTV replacing %DIR% AND %FILE% parameters.

Yes, you are right. I tested it with a command like:


I will check the both links you put in the message tomorrow, I have lack of time today. I will keep you updated, I am sure that this issue can be fixed this week! Then everything is working and I will be the happiest boy on earth

well SpallVI, I changed some lines as specified in the other topics you mentioned. But still the same.

If I run the manually on the command prompt it is working. But runing it as a job against a recording still doing nothing. The job is Queued and stays Queued (realy nothing happens, I check the top and no load).

I don't understand this. Can we check what is going wrong here? It is not in the script, that is something I know for almost sure.