Video Conversion keeps failing

[mayamaniac]

For unknown reason, Video Conversion keeps failing. Here's the log:

Sat 11/11 3:09:26.816 Added for transcoding:MediaFile[id=6233143 A[6158301,6158266,"NBA Basketball",10362@1102.01:30,150] host=server encodedBy=Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Capture #2 DVD Standard Play format=MPEG2-PS 0:00:00 0 kbps [#0 Video[MPEG2-Video 29.97 fps 720x480 4:3 6400 kbps interlaced]#1 Audio[MP2 48000 Hz 2 channels 384 kbps]] \\Server\F\TV_Recordings_3\NBABasketball-LosAngelesLakersatGoldenStateWarriors-6158301-0.mpg, Seg0[Thu 11/2 1:30:00.083-Thu 11/2 4:50:00.001]]
Sat 11/11 3:09:26.818 Initiating xcode for \\Server\F\TV_Recordings_3\NBABasketball-LosAngelesLakersatGoldenStateWarriors-6158301-0.mpg
Sat 11/11 3:09:26.828 Set Transcode format source=MPEG2-PS 0:00:00 0 kbps [#0 Video[MPEG2-Video 29.97 fps 720x480 4:3 6400 kbps interlaced]#1 Audio[MP2 48000 Hz 2 channels 384 kbps]] dest=avi 0:00:00 0 kbps [#0 Video[mpeg4 2000 kbps progressive]#1 Audio[ ]{CompressionDetails=-vtag xvid -deinterlace}]
Sat 11/11 3:09:26.841 Ministry is waiting for 180 sec
Sat 11/11 3:09:27.842 Ministry is waiting for 180 sec
Sat 11/11 3:09:32.145 KillTranscoding for:MediaFile[id=6233143 A[6158301,6158266,"NBA Basketball",10362@1102.01:30,150] host=server encodedBy=Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Capture #2 DVD Standard Play format=MPEG2-PS 0:00:00 0 kbps [#0 Video[MPEG2-Video 29.97 fps 720x480 4:3 6400 kbps interlaced]#1 Audio[MP2 48000 Hz 2 channels 384 kbps]] \\Server\F\TV_Recordings_3\NBABasketball-LosAngelesLakersatGoldenStateWarriors-6158301-0.mpg, Seg0[Thu 11/2 1:30:00.083-Thu 11/2 4:50:00.001]]
Sat 11/11 3:09:32.146 Ministry is waiting for 180 sec

I'm using 6.013 with the MPEF4 Detinterlaced AVI-HIGH setting. Any ideas?

[Narflex]

Set this property:
media_server/transcode_debug=true

and then try again and send in your log to betatest at sagetv.com

[mayamaniac]

Figured out the problem after enabling the transcode log. It seems FFMpeg couldn't find the source video. So I went to try to play the video and there were playback errors on all my recordings. I used UNC paths for recording directories and just discovered that all my network shares volumes are not accessible, it would display the error "Not enough server storage is available to process this command".

Fortunately, I seen this error before and a quick search on google revealed the IRPStackSize registry setting is too low, increasing it to 25 fixed the problem.

Video Conversion works again

There's still a problem with the MVP playback of some of the converted videos where the timeline is screwed or playback goes to a certain point in the video and then stops everytime. This only happens with the MVP, playback on the regular SageTV Client is fine.

Also there are timeline problems with ceratin Divx videos where the timeline displays something like 3945:40:18 for current position. Here's a sample image of a Divx video playback: http://static.flickr.com/104/2952310...4c7424.jpg?v=0.
That Divx video was played from SageTV Recordings, however when I played the same video from "Browse Media Files", it plays fine. look here: http://static.flickr.com/111/2952407...df112b.jpg?v=0.
So there's something odd thats happening from the fact that the converted Divx video was picked up in the SageTV Recordings video. How I converted the recordings to Divx was explained here on the first post: http://forums.sage.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=20858