[mythtv-users] automatic transcode job dont start

Markus Schulz msc at antzsystem.de
Tue Nov 20 18:12:20 UTC 2007


Am Dienstag, 20. November 2007 schrieb Brad DerManouelian:
> On Nov 20, 2007, at 8:41 AM, Markus Schulz wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, 20. November 2007 schrieb Daniel Agar:
> >>> hello,
> >>> i've scheduled different shows and enabled the automatic
> >>> transcode. But after recording nothing was transcoded (i've
> >>> waited one night). My backend allows transcode jobs from 00:00
> >>> until 23:59. Only if im select manually "Transcode" from Mythweb
> >>> the file will be converted (with problem as described in my other
> >>> posting).
> >>>
> >>> What can be wrong here? How can i check (from DB?) if a transcode
> >>> job was scheduled?
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Markus Schulz
> >>
> >> Did you enable autotranscode after scheduling recordings? In
> >> recording schedules of mythweb just set the autotranscode option
> >> for the desired recordings.
> >
> > you mean: "Auto-transcode" and yes it's checked.
>
> Does your recording profile allow transcoding?

i think yes, but thats a bit confusing too me.

I can choose the following (myhtweb):

Recording Profile: Default | Live TV | High Quality | Low Quality
Transcoder: Autodetect | High Quality | Low Quality | Medium Quality | 
MYMP4
Recording Group: Default | Default (yes it's duplex on creation time and 
single after creation)

Inside mythfrontend (/configuration/..) i got the following recording 
profile groups:
- Hardware DVB Encoders (here i can setup: encode yes/no?)
  * Default
  * Live TV
  * High Quality 
  * Low Quality
  * TEST (i've created it for testing purpose)

- Transcoder (here i can setup how to encode (codec, bitrate))
  * Auto RTjpeg/MPEG4
  * Auto MPEG2
  * High Quality
  * Medium Quality 
  * Low Quality
  * MYMP4 (i've created it for testing purpose)

The two profile groups have completely different properties.

What means "Recording Profiles" in mythweb? 
- An entry from "Hardware DVB Encoders" profile group?
- or one from "Transcoder" profile group?

I think the former (cause only there i can choose to auto transcode 
yes/no), but why there is no TEST entry in mythweb?
What is the background behind "Recording Profile" and "Transcoder" in 
mythweb/myth? 


I've enabled in mythfrontend for recording profile "Default" (from 
Hardware DVB Encoders profile group) the "transcode new records", but 
without luck (no auto transcode started).

In mysql i found:
table record:
 - transcoder -> ID -> recordingprofiles table
 - autotranscoder -> 0=no 1=yes

for one of my recordings:
transcoder -> 54 (which transcode profile)
autotranscoder -> 1 (means yes)
and in recordingsprofiles:
ID=54, name = MYMP4, videocodec=MPEG-4, audiocodec=MP3, profilegroup=6 
(6==ID from transcoders from profilegroups table). 

This looks all fine, but why no transcode job was startet?!?

Backend log for a test recording

2007-11-20 19:01:02.634 TVRec(1): Changing from None to RecordingOnly
2007-11-20 19:01:02.645 TVRec(1): HW Tuner: 1->1
2007-11-20 19:01:02.966 Started recording: 3 (rbb Brandenburg) "Di Nov 
20 19:01:00 2007": channel 1503 on cardid 1, sourceid 1
2007-11-20 19:02:00.602 TVRec(1): Changing from RecordingOnly to None
2007-11-20 19:02:00.622 Finished recording 3 (rbb Brandenburg) "Di Nov 
20 19:01:00 2007": channel 1503
2007-11-20 19:02:00.624 Reschedule requested for id 0.
2007-11-20 19:02:00.818 Finished recording 3 (rbb Brandenburg) "Di Nov 
20 19:01:00 2007": channel 1503
2007-11-20 19:02:00.879 Scheduled 25 items in 0.3 = 0.00 match + 0.25 
place
2007-11-20 19:02:01.224 Reschedule requested for id -1.
2007-11-20 19:02:01.850 Scheduled 25 items in 0.6 = 0.39 match + 0.24 
place
2007-11-20 19:02:03.374 AFD: Opened codec 0x83b6490, id(MPEG2VIDEO) 
type(Video)
2007-11-20 19:02:03.384 AFD: Opened codec 0x83b6ad0, id(MP3) type(Audio)


-- 
Markus Schulz


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