[mythtv-users] Mythtranscode error: Deadlock detected. One buffer is full when, the other is empty! Aborting

Ian Barton lists at manor-farm.org
Wed May 19 16:59:34 UTC 2010


On 19/05/10 12:46, John Pilkington wrote:
> On 19/05/10 11:32, Ian Barton wrote:
>> I am running 0.23 Mythbuntu daily builds and have just encountered this
>> error:
>>
>> mythtv at mythtv:~$ /usr/bin/mythtranscode --showprogress --honorcutlist
>> --mpeg2 -c 1012 -s "20100518150000" -o
>> /home/mythmedia/1012_20100518150000.mpg.tmp
>> 2010-05-19 11:17:32.942 Using runtime prefix = /usr
>> 2010-05-19 11:17:32.942 Using configuration directory =
>> /home/mythtv/.mythtv
>> 2010-05-19 11:17:32.943 Empty LocalHostName.
>> 2010-05-19 11:17:33.437 Cannot find default UPnP backend
>> 2010-05-19 11:17:33.464 New DB connection, total: 1
>> 2010-05-19 11:17:33.475 Closing DB connection named 'DBManager0'
>> 2010-05-19 11:17:34.279 Enabled verbose msgs: important
>> 2010-05-19 11:17:34.287 ProgramInfo(): Updated pathname '':'' ->
>> '1012_20100518150000.mpg'
>> Mux rate: 15.44 Mbit/s
>> 2010-05-19 11:17:35.337 Deadlock detected. One buffer is full when
>> the other is empty! Aborting
>>
>> A search of the archive turns up http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/2077
>>
>> This is the first time I have seen this error. Should I add a comment to
>> the ticket and upload a sample file?
>>
>> Ian.
>
> Unless things have changed recently I'm afraid this just suggests that
> you haven't tried running that command on a dvb recording very often.
> The standard response seems to be 'use Project-X' and you may like to
> look at my script at > http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/8347
>
> As it stands it needs manual intervention - and a little editing to
> configure it - but I find that it does work.
>
I have used this script literally hundreds of times with DVB-T and not 
encountered this problem before.

I'll take a look at your script. An automated way of using Project X 
with cut lists from the database would be good. For the few recordings I 
have other problems with I have just copied the recording to another 
computer and marked the cut list manually.

Ian.


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