Thankyou for the advice Anthony. I'll pose this question on a mythtv list. FYI the channels I was attempting to transcode were ABC, SBS and 7mate.
Thanks, Tom On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 9:20 AM, Anthony Giggins <[email protected] > wrote: > > > On 28 April 2016 at 23:20, Tom Prouse <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I've just this week installed a fresh copy of mythbuntu 16.04 on an old >> pc. Everything appears to be working well except for transcoding recordings. >> >> When I transcode a recording to MPEG-4 (with or without High Quality or >> advanced motion estimation checked in the recording profile) it corrupts >> the video. Audio is fine, but the video looks like a test signal. The >> corruption is visible in mythweb (the thumbnail shows a frame of the >> corrupted video) and through the openelec kodi pvr.mythtv plugin, I don't >> use mythfrontend. All recordings are from australian DVB-T channels, the >> files in the recordings folder have the extension .ts >> >> Does anyone have an idea what could be causing this? >> >> MythTV Version : v28.0-9-g1bec90b >> MythTV Branch : fixes/0.28 >> Network Protocol : 88 >> Library API : 0.28.20160309-1 >> QT Version : 5.5.1 >> Options compiled in: >> linux profile use_hidesyms using_alsa using_oss using_pulse >> using_pulseoutput using_backend using_bindings_perl using_bindings_python >> using_bindings_php using_crystalhd using_dvb using_firewire using_frontend >> using_hdhomerun using_vbox using_ceton using_hdpvr using_ivtv >> using_joystick_menu using_libcec using_libcrypto using_libdns_sd >> using_libfftw3 using_libxml2 using_lirc using_mheg using_opengl >> using_opengl_video using_qtwebkit using_qtscript using_qtdbus using_sdl >> using_taglib using_v4l2 using_x11 using_xrandr using_xv using_profiletype >> using_bindings_perl using_bindings_python using_bindings_php >> using_freetype2 using_mythtranscode using_opengl using_vaapi using_vdpau >> using_ffmpeg_threads using_mheg using_libass using_libxml2 >> >> Thanks, >> Tom >> >> > Hi Tom, > > This is probably a question for the mythtv-users or the mythtv-dev mailing > lists > http://lists.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > http://lists.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev > > however what channels are you recording from as a small number of > Australian channel have moved to MPEG4, I know in 0.27.6 that lossless > transcoding of MPEG4 recordings fails so I've resorted to the Lossless cut > job user from > > https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Lossless_Cut > > Cheers, > > Anthony > > -- > Ubuntu-mythtv mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-mythtv > >
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