transcode nto working

[natty]

hi there,

have my MVp set up working fine with the live tv and othe rmpeg vids etc

however, when i pick one of my xvid/divx films, from the list, it flicks up a single frame, half messed up and then kicks back to the main menu

when i select it and pick transcode on the left menu, it then allows me to pick the profile of Xvid/DivX
but nothing happens

sure, as usual i am missing something simple

i have already installed the hauppage stuff, for the wintv, and i thought for the MVP..

..any ideas

thanks

[sub]

What speed is your PC?

[natty]

p4 3.2ghz
2gb ram
gigabit nic

tv-nova 500

[sub]

Reproduce the problem then post the logs and I'll take a look.

[natty]

thanks sub

logs attached

[sub]

Try running this command from a command prompt and see what happens:

"C:\Program Files\Devnz\GBPVR\Third Party\FFmpeg\ffmpeg.exe" -y -i "C:\Documents and Settings\nat\My Documents\My Videos\Lost (2004) - 4x07 - Ji Yeon [2938433]\lost.s04e07.hdtv.xvid-dot.avi" -b 2400k -ar 48000 -ac 2 -ab 128 -r 25 -s 352x288 -f svcd "C:\Temp\MVP000DFE237CB82.mpg"

Check if C:\Temp\MVP000DFE237CB82.mpg gets created, or if there is any error messages.

[natty]

yup gets created (26.0 KB (26,624 bytes))

output from the cmd window was..

FFmpeg version SVN-r7165, Copyright © 2000-2006 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
configuration: --enable-mp3lame --enable-libnut --enable-libogg --enable-vorb
is --enable-faad --enable-faac --enable-libgsm --enable-xvid --enable-x264 --ena
ble-mingw32 --enable-a52 --enable-dts --enable-pp --enable-amr_nb --enable-amr_w
b --enable-swscaler --enable-avisynth --enable-gpl --enable-memalign-hack --cpu=
i686 --extra-ldflags=-static
libavutil version: 49.1.0
libavcodec version: 51.25.0
libavformat version: 51.6.0
built on Nov 24 2006 18:53:03, gcc: 4.0.3
Input #0, avi, from 'C:\Documents and Settings\nat\My Documents\My Videos\Lost (
2004) - 4x07 - Ji Yeon [2938433]\lost.s04e07.hdtv.xvid-dot.avi':
Duration: 00:00:00.1, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 1218 kb/s
Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg4, yuv420p, 624x352, 23.98 fps®
Stream #0.1: Audio: mp3, 48000 Hz, stereo, 224 kb/s
Output #0, svcd, to 'C:\Temp\MVP000DFE237CB82.mpg':
Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg2video, yuv420p, 352x288, q=2-31, 2400 kb/s, 25.00 fps
©
Stream #0.1: Audio: mp2, 48000 Hz, stereo, 128 kb/s
Stream mapping:
Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
Stream #0.1 -> #0.1
Press [q] to stop encoding
invalid new backstep 636
invalid new backstep 636
invalid new backstep 636
frame= 4 q=2.0 Lsize= 26kB time=0.1 bitrate=2958.2kbits/s
video:20kB audio:1kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead 21.804374%

[sub]

Is the resulting file playable on your MVP?

May try bumping up the transcode pre-play delay on the MVP tab of the config app. Set it to something like 15 seconds.

[natty]

no, wont play it ,just 'reboots' the mvp
although the file is not very big so not sure if id see it working if it was to..

cleared it out of there, tried to watch the xvid on the mvp, and kept an eye on the temp folder, which the same file from the cmd line appeared - 26k didnt appear to get any larger than that, looks like that is just the parital frame i saw before the mvp ditched and reconnected

also upped the delay - no luck

side note : just copied/moved the generated file from the temp directory to my videos dir, and it popped up a dialog in windows asking about using fddshow, once only, every time from now one.. 4 options, 1 check at the bototm tried to write them down but it closed itself

[sub]

I'm guessing ffmpeg doesnt like something about your source file.

Can you post the output of ffmpeg when you run the following at the command line:

"C:\Program Files\Devnz\GBPVR\Third Party\FFmpeg\ffmpeg.exe" -y -i "C:\Documents and Settings\nat\My Documents\My Videos\Lost (2004) - 4x07 - Ji Yeon [2938433]\lost.s04e07.hdtv.xvid-dot.avi" -b 2400k -ar 48000 -ac 2 -ab 128 -r 25 -s 352x288 -f svcd "C:\Temp\MVP000DFE237CB82.mpg"