[mythtv-users] "mpeg2enc is currently broken"

David Kramer david at thekramers.net
Sat May 12 00:15:48 UTC 2007


Roald wrote:
> On 5/11/07, David Kramer <david at thekramers.net> wrote:
>>
>> Running MythArchive on my box today failed.  Here's the bottom of the
>> logfile:
>>
>> Added next button image /usr/share/mythtv/mytharchive/images/next.png
>> Added next button mask image 
>> /usr/share/mythtv/mytharchive/images/next.png
>> Encoding Menu Page 1 using aspect ratio '16:9'
>> **ERROR: [mpeg2enc] mpeg2enc is currently broken.  If you really want to
>> use it delete this line and recompile
>> ************************************************************
>> ERROR: Failed while running png2yuv - png2yuv -n 449 -v0 -I p -f 29.97
>> -j '/data/mythtv/tmp/work/background-1.png' | mpeg2enc -b 5000 -a 3 -v 1
>> -f 8 -o '/data/mythtv/tmp/work/temp.m2v'
>> ************************************************************
> 
> 
> 
> I got the same error this evening. I downgraded to the older version from
> atrpms, and it seems to work again.
> 
> mjpegtools-1.9.1-14_cvs20061009.el4.at.i386.rpm

Yup.  That did it.  Thanks.  Odd that there was no mention of it on the 
mpgegtools page or mpegtools-users mailing list.


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