[mythtvnz] what codecs are supported by mythfrontend?

[Nick Rout]

On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Jason Haar
<jhaar-ourshack-com at whanau.org> wrote:
> Hi there
>
> I'm calling a User-job converter script to convert my HD recordings into
> a MPEG-2 format (don't ask) and re-inject them into the recordings
> database via some code I poached from  x264_transcode_high.pl
>
> Anyway, it mostly worked: I got out a MPEG-2 file that plays fine under
> xine, and I have two "versions" of the recording show up in mythfrontend
> (that's what I wanted). But when I go to view it under mythfrontend, I
> get "Couldn't find an A/V decoder for..." on both the frontend and the
> backend. The backend error is caused by mythpreviewgen not being able to
> create a preview image, and mythfrontend creates the frontend error
>
> I'm using ffmpeg to create the file, so I'm guessing the codec
> combination is not supported by core myth libraries? But they are
> mp3lame and mpeg2video - I wouldn't think you could choose more generic.
> Can someone take a look and tell me what's at fault?
>
> ffmpeg -y -i original.mpg -acodec libmp3lame -ar 48000 -ac 2 -ab 160k
> -async 1 -copyts -vcodec mpeg2video -b:v 7500000 -threads 2 -deinterlace
> output.mpg
>

It's getting pretty good at playing anything, but I wonder if you need
to specify the output format (as opposed to codec, which you have
done). I think the option would be -f mpegts

I will find a small file to play with and test your script. It's
snowing and work is closed...(benefit of being married to the boss!)