[mythtv-users] Mythtranscode is currently unable to transcode remote files
Peter Abplanalp
pta-myth at psaconsultants.com
Wed Jan 17 12:44:37 UTC 2007
first off, thanks very much for the help! on to the results...
----- "Chris Pinkham" <cpinkham at bc2va.org> wrote:
> * On Sun Jan 14, 2007 at 07:21:45AM -0700, Peter Abplanalp wrote:
> > that's correct. the master is called mythtv and has an ip address
> > of .104. the recording host is masterbed and has an ip of .107.
> > the data in the recorded table has the correct info for the csi
> > miami recording, masterbed/.107 but the master backend tried to
> > transcode it. why? shouldn't it have the recording host
> > (masterbed/.107) do the transcoding?
>
> Check the jobqueue table to see what the inserted records looks like.
> If you do have the "run jobs on recording host" setting turned ON,
> then the hostname of the backend that recorded the file should be
> inserted into the jobqueue table, otherwise that field will be empty
> and it will get populated by whatever host picks up the job.
now, if i'm really quick checking the jobqueue table, the hostname field is
blank, as you said it would be but after a few moments, it gets populated with
the master's hostname (mythtv.) from where does mythtv get the hostname it
should use for transcoding? it looks like the master hostname (mythtv) gets
put in the host table eventhough the host in the recorded table is
masterbed. just for clarity, let me provide some data again.
here are the rows from the recorded table where transcoding failed:
title subtitle hostname transcoded
=====================================================================================
CSI: Miami Going Under masterbed.psaconsultants.com 2
CSI: Miami Driven masterbed.psaconsultants.com 2
My Name Is Earl Buried Treasure masterbed.psaconsultants.com 2
Grey's Anatomy Six Days masterbed.psaconsultants.com 2
Jake 2.0 Arms and the Girl masterbed.psaconsultants.com 2
Las Vegas Fleeting Cheating Meeting masterbed.psaconsultants.com 2
NUMB3RS Finders Keepers masterbed.psaconsultants.com 2
CSI: Miami Death Pool 100 masterbed.psaconsultants.com 2
here is the row from the jobqueue table from when i tried to transcode
the first csi in the table above. i've put the data on 3 lines to
hopefully make it more readable:
id chanid starttime inserttime type cmds flags
=========================================================================
2222 2004 2006-12-18 21:00:00 2007-01-17 05:19:49 1 0 1
status statustime hostname args
=============================================================
304 2007-01-17 05:19:55 mythtv.psaconsultants.com
comment
==================================
Transcode failed with status: 242
as you can see, mythtv seems to ignore the host on which a recording was made
and just uses the master for transcoding. why would mythtv do this?
here are the rows from my settings table for JobsRunOnRecordHost:
| value | data | hostname |
+---------------------+------+------------------------------+
| JobsRunOnRecordHost | 1 | masterbed.psaconsultants.com |
| JobsRunOnRecordHost | 1 | mythtv.psaconsultants.com |
| JobsRunOnRecordHost | 1 | yoda.psaconsultants.com |
in the interest of complete disclosure, i was able to transcode one csi
episode from my previous data because when i tried this experiment last
night, i didn't check to see if the master was busy (it was) and the master
off loaded the transcode request to the correct host. it seems that if the
master is busy, it chooses the correct host.
thanks again for your help.
--
Peter Abplanalp
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