[mythtv-users] 0.22-fixes: "Couldn't open file abort.dat"

Stefano Pucillo ste.pucc at gmail.com
Wed Sep 15 15:49:05 UTC 2010


On 22 April 2010 21:07, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:

> On 04/22/2010 02:49 PM, Jacob Strandlien wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On 04/22/2010 02:10 PM, Jacob Strandlien wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> I've had some problems with MythTV recently, and I realized that this
>>>> was because my hard drive was full. I traced the problem to my
>>>> mythbackend.log files, which were several gigabytes in size. The weird
>>>> thing is that the log files are filling with this:
>>>>
>>>> 2010-04-21 07:47:28.661 Failed to decode frame.  Position was: 0
>>>> 2010-04-21 07:47:28.916 Couldn't open file abort.dat
>>>>
>>>>
>>> That should be a transcode problem--like a transcoder spinning
>>>
>>> endlessly--not a commercial flagging problem.  Check all your
>>> transcoder-related directories
>>>
>> I've already checked the directory where the transcoded files are
>>
>> placed on my system, and access rights to that directory seem fine.
>> Are there other directories involved in transcoding?
>>
>>
>
> It seems likely that the issue is with a broken video that you're
> transcoding.
>
> Can you upload a 50-100MB section from the very beginning of the file
> you're transcoding to some place on the 'net and send a link to the file.
>  Please make sure the error is reproducible with the sample.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike
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Hello,

I'm very interested in above transcode error, because I get often that error
message with huge log file creation, and no transcoded file.
I'm using a mythbuntu 9.10 with mythtv 0.22.

Do you have a fix for it?

thanks,
regards,
Stefano
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