[mythtv-users] mythtranscode problem

[Tony Maro]

Han Gerrits wrote:

> hi,
>
> I don't get mythtranscode to work properly.
>
> the errormessage it gives is:
>
> Couldn't create fifo for file: fifodir.6689/vidout
> No such file or directory
> Error initializing fifo writer.  Aborting

Sounds like you didn't configure the folders that MythTV needs?

Check your setup and make sure you've set the temp, buffers, etc. 
directories, and that all are writable by the user MythTV runs as.

-Tony