[mythtv-users] mythcommflag && mythvideo (2nd try)

[Richard Shaw]

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Nasa <nasa01 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> ----- "Robert McNamara" <robert.mcnamara at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Nasa <nasa01 at comcast.net> wrote:
>> > Just to update this -- the latest version from my distro (Mandriva)
>> is 0.5, I
>> > went and downloaded the svn version which didn't have the hang
>> issue.  I fully
>> > expect that the mythcommflag issue will go away once I recompile
>> against the svn
>> > version of ffmpeg.
>> >
>> > Nasa
>> >
>>
>> Myth doesn't compile against ffmpeg, we import the libraries in a
>> rather laborious ffmpeg sync process several times a year.  So myth
>> doesn't get compiled against your local ffmpeg libs.
>>
> I guess I remember reading about that...
>
> When was the last sync?  And could I possibly be the only one seeing this (mythcommflag hanging)?
> Given what I have seen between the two versions of ffmpeg -- is that likely to be the problem or is there some other area I should be looking at?  I am considering the suggestion of using mythtranscode.  However, unless I can dump that to /dev/null, I don't know if I have enough disk space to create a script to update all these files (20G a pop adds up quick), not to mention how long it would take...
>
> Nasa

I'd like to know as well as I'm having a similar problem with
mytharchive with ffmpeg bombing out on a MPEG2 HD recording.

Richard