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criggie at criggie

May 26, 2011, 5:09 AM

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mythtranscode gone from 0.24?

Call this one silly, but I'm trying to use Archive to DVD on myth 0.24
Now, can anyone confirm whether there's a mythtranscode binary or not?
I don't have one, can't find one.

I ask because the error I'm getting is this, which suggests there should
be one.

...
Waiting for mythtranscode to create the fifos <-- x 30 or so
************************************************************
ERROR: Waited too long for mythtranscode to create the fifos - giving up!!
************************************************************
Terminated

Any thoughts? Web searching was inconclusive... too much old stuff on
mailing list archives.

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stephen_agent at jsw

May 26, 2011, 8:07 AM

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Re: mythtranscode gone from 0.24? [In reply to]

On Fri, 27 May 2011 00:09:33 +1200, you wrote:

>Call this one silly, but I'm trying to use Archive to DVD on myth 0.24
>Now, can anyone confirm whether there's a mythtranscode binary or not?
>I don't have one, can't find one.
>
>I ask because the error I'm getting is this, which suggests there should
>be one.
>
>...
>Waiting for mythtranscode to create the fifos <-- x 30 or so
>************************************************************
>ERROR: Waited too long for mythtranscode to create the fifos - giving up!!
>************************************************************
>Terminated
>
>
>Any thoughts? Web searching was inconclusive... too much old stuff on
>mailing list archives.

Results of "which mythtranscode" command on Mythbyntu 11.04 with
0.24-fixes:

/usr/bin/mythtranscode

So it is there still. Having never used it, I can not say if it is
working or not. A "dpkg -S mythtranscode" command says:

mythtv-transcode-utils: /usr/bin/mythtranscode

so check that you have the mythtv-transcode-utils package installed.

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criggie at criggie

May 26, 2011, 1:49 PM

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Re: mythtranscode gone from 0.24? [In reply to]

On 27/05/11 03:07, Stephen Worthington wrote:
> On Fri, 27 May 2011 00:09:33 +1200, you wrote:
>> Call this one silly, but I'm trying to use Archive to DVD on myth 0.24
>> Now, can anyone confirm whether there's a mythtranscode binary or not?
>> I don't have one, can't find one.

> Results of "which mythtranscode" command on Mythbyntu 11.04 with 0.24-fixes:
> So it is there still. Having never used it, I can not say if it is
> working or not. A "dpkg -S mythtranscode" command says:
> mythtv-transcode-utils: /usr/bin/mythtranscode
> so check that you have the mythtv-transcode-utils package installed.

E: Unable to locate package mythtv-transcode-utils

Cool so that's likely the problem. Thanks for that.

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criggie at criggie

May 26, 2011, 5:12 PM

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Re: mythtranscode gone from 0.24? SOLVED [In reply to]

criggie wrote, On 05/27/2011 08:49 AM:
> On 27/05/11 03:07, Stephen Worthington wrote:
>> Results of "which mythtranscode" command on Mythbyntu 11.04 with 0.24-fixes:
>> So it is there still. Having never used it, I can not say if it is
>> working or not. A "dpkg -S mythtranscode" command says:
>> mythtv-transcode-utils: /usr/bin/mythtranscode
>> so check that you have the mythtv-transcode-utils package installed.
> E: Unable to locate package mythtv-transcode-utils
> Cool so that's likely the problem. Thanks for that.

Turns out the binary was hidden away inside mythtv-backend on debian,
which is not generally installed on a frontend only.

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nick.rout at gmail

May 26, 2011, 8:14 PM

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Re: mythtranscode gone from 0.24? SOLVED [In reply to]

I remember going through this a while ago. Mytharchive will not work on a
front end anyway. IIRC.
On 27/05/2011 12:13 PM, "Criggie" <criggie [at] criggie> wrote:
> criggie wrote, On 05/27/2011 08:49 AM:
>> On 27/05/11 03:07, Stephen Worthington wrote:
>>> Results of "which mythtranscode" command on Mythbyntu 11.04 with
0.24-fixes:
>>> So it is there still. Having never used it, I can not say if it is
>>> working or not. A "dpkg -S mythtranscode" command says:
>>> mythtv-transcode-utils: /usr/bin/mythtranscode
>>> so check that you have the mythtv-transcode-utils package installed.
>> E: Unable to locate package mythtv-transcode-utils
>> Cool so that's likely the problem. Thanks for that.
>
> Turns out the binary was hidden away inside mythtv-backend on debian,
> which is not generally installed on a frontend only.
>
>
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criggie at criggie

May 26, 2011, 8:46 PM

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Re: mythtranscode gone from 0.24? SOLVED [In reply to]

Nick Rout wrote, On 05/27/2011 03:14 PM:
>
> I remember going through this a while ago. Mytharchive will not work
> on a front end anyway. IIRC.
>
>

Yeah? I produced both a native archive and a DVD ISO which burned to
disk fine.
This is on my desktop which is a frontend only, but the backend package
is installed to get mythtranscode.

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nick.rout at gmail

May 26, 2011, 9:06 PM

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Re: mythtranscode gone from 0.24? SOLVED [In reply to]

On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 3:46 PM, Criggie <criggie [at] criggie> wrote:
> Nick Rout wrote, On 05/27/2011 03:14 PM:
>>
>> I remember going through this a while ago. Mytharchive will not work
>> on a front end anyway. IIRC.
>>
>>
>
> Yeah? � I produced both a native archive and a DVD ISO which burned to
> disk fine.
> This is on my desktop which is a frontend only, but the backend package
> is installed to get mythtranscode.

Do you have the files you are transcoding on a mount on your frontend,
from memory it wouldn't work with storage directories.

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criggie at criggie

May 27, 2011, 12:06 AM

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Re: mythtranscode gone from 0.24? SOLVED [In reply to]

On 27/05/11 16:06, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 3:46 PM, Criggie<criggie [at] criggie> wrote:
>> Yeah? I produced both a native archive and a DVD ISO which burned to
>> disk fine.
>> This is on my desktop which is a frontend only, but the backend package
>> is installed to get mythtranscode.
>
> Do you have the files you are transcoding on a mount on your frontend,
> from memory it wouldn't work with storage directories.

Yes thats right - I have one NFS export which the frontends mount.
Worked fine for me, but I've not used storage groups.

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