[mythtv-users] nuvexport failing suddenly (solved)

[Dan Boger]

On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 07:15:20AM -0700, Shawn Asmussen wrote:
> I had this same error message the first time I tried nuvexport with
> xvid. I ended up tracing the problem to the fact that I needed to
> recompile transcode so that xvid4 was the default xvid instead of
> xvid2. Alternatively, you could edit this line in export_Trans_XviD.pm
> (One of the perl modules that comes with nuvexport):
> 
> my $command = "nice -n 19 transcode -x mpeg2 -i
> $main::video_dir/$self->{episode}->{filename} -y xvid -Z
> $self->{h_res}x$self->{v_res} -o $safe_outfile -w $self->{v_bitrate} -b
> $self->{a_bitrate}";
> 
> and change the 'xvid' to 'xvid4'. If it's the same problem that I
> have, the issue is that transcode supports several different versions
> of xvid, and if you don't specify which version you want to use it
> defaults to whatever version it was compiled to default to, and you
> don't have that version of xvid installed (From your error message it
> looks like it's looking for xvid2 and you only have xvid4 installed.)

Freaking awesome.  That did the trick!  Thanks a whole lot!  I can now
free some of the 0.5T, to make room for new recordings :)

Thanks again!

Dan