[ATrpms-users] dvdauthor error

Jeffrey J. Kosowsky atrpms at kosowsky.org
Thu Jan 10 07:56:36 CET 2008 

I just installed mytharchive (which in turn pulled in dvdauthor).

I then tried to create a dvd out of an mpeg2 recording of a live TV
show. The only transcoding then was to take care of my cut list and I
otherwise left the encoding unchanged since it all fit on a single DVD
anyway.

However, in the middle of the processing, I got an error:
"ERROR: Failed while running dvdauthor. Result:1"

I got this error using both the atrpms version of dvdauthor (0.6.11-1)
and the Fedora version (0.6.14-2).

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Here is the rest of the progress.log file: (I also excerpted some
interesting warning and error messages from the mythburn.log below
this)

2008-01-10 00:54:33 mythburn.py (0.1.20071115-1.fixes) starting up...
2008-01-10 00:54:33 Found 1 CPUs
2008-01-10 00:54:33 Obtaining MythTV settings from MySQL database for hostname mycomputer.domain
2008-01-10 00:54:33 temppath: /mnt/video/myth-temp/work
2008-01-10 00:54:33 logpath:  /mnt/video/myth-temp/logs
2008-01-10 00:54:33 Processing Mythburn job number 1.
2008-01-10 00:54:33 Options - mediatype = 0, doburn = 1, createiso = 0, erasedvdrw = 0
2008-01-10 00:54:33           savefilename = ''
2008-01-10 00:54:33 Looking for: /usr/share/mythtv/mytharchive/themes/MythCenter/theme.xml
2008-01-10 00:54:33 Loading font 0, /usr/share/mythtv/FreeSans.ttf size 19
2008-01-10 00:54:33 Loading font 1, /usr/share/mythtv/FreeSans.ttf size 15
2008-01-10 00:54:33 Loading font 2, /usr/share/mythtv/FreeSans.ttf size 13
2008-01-10 00:54:33 wantIntro: 1, wantMainMenu: 1, wantChapterMenu:1, wantDetailsPage: 0
2008-01-10 00:54:33 Final DVD Video format will be ntsc
2008-01-10 00:54:33 There are 1 files to process
2008-01-10 00:54:39 Pre-processing file '2021_20080109210000.mpg' of type 'recording'
2008-01-10 00:54:39 streaminfo.xml :-
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<!DOCTYPE FILEINFO>
<file duration="2901" filename="/mnt/video/mythtv-raw/2021_20080109210000.mpg" type="mpegts">    
        <streams count="3">        
                <video aspectratio="1.33333" bitrate="15000000" codec="mpeg2video" ffmpegindex="0" fps="29.97" height="480" id="65" start_time="6554.597418" streamindex="0" width="704"/>        
                <audio bitrate="192000" channels="2" codec="ac3" ffmpegindex="1" id="68" language="N/A" samplerate="48000" start_time="6554.572649" streamindex="1"/>        
                <audio bitrate="128000" channels="2" codec="ac3" ffmpegindex="2" id="69" language="N/A" samplerate="48000" start_time="6554.572379" streamindex="2"/>        
        </streams>    
</file>
2008-01-10 00:54:39           My Show
2008-01-10 00:54:39 Video resolution is 704 by 480
2008-01-10 00:54:39 *************************************************************
2008-01-10 00:54:39 Processing file 2021_20080109210000.mpg of type recording
2008-01-10 00:54:39 *************************************************************
2008-01-10 00:54:39 File type is 'mpegts'
2008-01-10 00:54:39 Video codec is 'mpeg2video'
2008-01-10 00:54:39 File has a cut list - running mythtrancode to remove unwanted segments
2008-01-10 00:59:50 streaminfo.xml :-
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<!DOCTYPE FILEINFO>
<file duration="6877" filename="/mnt/video/myth-temp/work/1/tmp" type="mpeg">    
        <streams count="3">        
                <video aspectratio="1.33333" bitrate="15000000" codec="mpeg2video" ffmpegindex="0" fps="29.97" height="480" id="480" start_time="0.28762" streamindex="0" width="704"/>        
                <audio bitrate="192000" channels="2" codec="ac3" ffmpegindex="1" id="128" language="N/A" samplerate="48000" start_time="0.28849" streamindex="1"/>        
                <audio bitrate="128000" channels="2" codec="ac3" ffmpegindex="2" id="129" language="N/A" samplerate="48000" start_time="0.28762" streamindex="2"/>        
        </streams>    
</file>
2008-01-10 00:59:50 Preferred audio languages eng and eng
2008-01-10 00:59:50 Video id: 0x1e0, Audio1: [1] 0x80 (AC3, N/A), Audio2: [-1] - 0x-1 (N/A, N/A)
2008-01-10 00:59:50 Splitting MPEG stream into audio and video parts
2008-01-10 00:59:50 Running: mythreplex --demux --fix_sync -o /mnt/video/myth-temp/work/1/stream -v 224 -c 128 "/mnt/video/myth-temp/work/1/tmp"
2008-01-10 01:05:35 Audio is already in ac3 format
2008-01-10 01:05:35 *************************************************************
2008-01-10 01:05:35 Finished processing file 2021_20080109210000.mpg
2008-01-10 01:05:35 *************************************************************
2008-01-10 01:05:35 Menu items per page 3
2008-01-10 01:05:35 Background image file is /usr/share/mythtv/mytharchive/themes/MythCenter/MythCenter-Background.png
2008-01-10 01:05:35 Music is menumusic.ac3, length is 15 seconds
2008-01-10 01:05:35 Creating DVD menus
2008-01-10 01:05:35 Menu page 1
2008-01-10 01:05:35 Added image /mnt/video/myth-temp/work/1/thumbnail.jpg
2008-01-10 01:05:37 Encoding Menu Page 1 using aspect ratio '16:9'
2008-01-10 01:06:16 Chapter items per page 8 
2008-01-10 01:06:16 Background image file is /usr/share/mythtv/mytharchive/themes/MythCenter/MythCenter-Background.png
2008-01-10 01:06:16 Music is menumusic.ac3, length is 15 seconds
2008-01-10 01:06:16 Creating DVD sub-menus
2008-01-10 01:06:16 Sub-menu 1 
2008-01-10 01:06:16 Video length is 6877 seconds. Each chapter will be 859 seconds
2008-01-10 01:06:16 Extracting thumbnail images from: /mnt/video/myth-temp/work/1/stream.mv2 - at 10,859,1718,2577,3436,4295,5154,6013,
2008-01-10 01:06:16 Destination file /mnt/video/myth-temp/work/1/chapter-%1.jpg
2008-01-10 01:07:06 Added image /mnt/video/myth-temp/work/1/chapter-1.jpg
2008-01-10 01:07:06 Added image /mnt/video/myth-temp/work/1/chapter-2.jpg
2008-01-10 01:07:06 Added image /mnt/video/myth-temp/work/1/chapter-3.jpg
2008-01-10 01:07:06 Added image /mnt/video/myth-temp/work/1/chapter-4.jpg
2008-01-10 01:07:06 Added image /mnt/video/myth-temp/work/1/chapter-5.jpg
2008-01-10 01:07:06 Added image /mnt/video/myth-temp/work/1/chapter-6.jpg
2008-01-10 01:07:06 Added image /mnt/video/myth-temp/work/1/chapter-7.jpg
2008-01-10 01:07:06 Added image /mnt/video/myth-temp/work/1/chapter-8.jpg
2008-01-10 01:07:06 Added titlemenu button image /usr/share/mythtv/mytharchive/images/previous.png 
2008-01-10 01:07:06 Added titlemenu button mask image /usr/share/mythtv/mytharchive/images/previous.png
2008-01-10 01:07:07 aspect ratio is: 1.33333
2008-01-10 01:07:07 Encoding Chapter Menu Page 1 using aspect ratio 'Video'
2008-01-10 01:07:48 Menu items per page 3
2008-01-10 01:07:48 Chapters per recording 8
2008-01-10 01:07:48 Creating DVD XML file for dvd author
2008-01-10 01:07:48 Menu page 1
2008-01-10 01:07:48 aspect ratio is: 1.33333
2008-01-10 01:07:48 aspect ratio is: 1.33333
2008-01-10 01:07:48 Video length is 6877 seconds. Each chapter will be 859 seconds
2008-01-10 01:07:48 Total size of video files, before multiplexing, is 2419 Mbytes, audio is 158 MBytes, menus are 6 MBytes.
2008-01-10 01:07:48 Video will fit onto DVD. 1778.05 MBytes of space remaining on recordable DVD.
2008-01-10 01:07:48 Multiplexing MPEG stream to /mnt/video/myth-temp/work/1/final.mpg
2008-01-10 01:07:48 Adding sync offset of 0ms
2008-01-10 01:07:48 Available streams - video and one audio stream
2008-01-10 01:07:48 Multiplex started PID=23070
2008-01-10 01:07:48 Starting dvdauthor
2008-01-10 01:08:50 ************************************************************
2008-01-10 01:08:50 ERROR: Failed while running dvdauthor. Result: 1
2008-01-10 01:08:50 ************************************************************
2008-01-10 01:08:50 
2008-01-10 01:08:50 Terminated


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Note that the (longer) mythburn.log had some other interesting
warnings/errors that I will summarize:

1. Many, many warnings like this:
video PTS inconsistent:  0:00:15.768  0:00:15.768  0:00:15.901  0:00:15.582  diff:  0:00:00.133 
Picture Coding Extension: 2:3 pulldown detected 
video PTS inconsistent:  0:00:30.316  0:00:30.316  0:00:37.807  0:00:37.487  diff:  0:00:07.490 
video DTS inconsistent:  0:00:30.216  0:00:30.216  0:00:37.673  0:00:37.353 diff:  0:00:07.457 
....
Warning negative video PTS increase!
video PTS inconsistent:  0:00:30.449  0:00:30.449  0:00:37.982  0:00:37.662  diff:  0:00:07.532 
video DTS inconsistent:  0:00:30.332  0:00:30.332  0:00:37.848  0:00:37.529 diff:  0:00:07.515 
....


2. About a dozen messages from mples about data arriving too late
++ WARN: [mplex] Target data rate lower than computed requirement!
++ WARN: [mplex] N.b. a 20% or so discrepancy in variable bit-rate
++ WARN: [mplex] streams is common and harmless provided no time-outs
will occur
....
STAT: VOBU 16 at 6MB, 1 PGCS++ WARN: [mplex] Stream e0: data will arrive too late sent(SCR)=2658889 required(DTS)=9009
++ WARN: [mplex] Video e0: buf= 224136 frame=000897 sector=00005493
++ WARN: [mplex] Audio bd: buf=  15165 frame=000939 sector=00000358

3. Then this more ominous warning:
++ WARN: [mplex] Video e0: buf= 228807 frame=046104 sector=00280087
++ WARN: [mplex] Audio bd: buf=  14397 frame=048609 sector=00018518
**ERROR: [mplex] Too many frame drops -exiting

4. Followed by:
INFO: Video pts = 0.133 .. 1555.086
INFO: Audio[0] pts = 0.133 .. 1555.653
STAT: VOBU 1381 at 585MB, 1 PGCS
INFO: Generating VTS with the following video attributes:
INFO: MPEG version: mpeg2
INFO: TV standard: ntsc
INFO: Aspect ratio: 4:3
INFO: Resolution: 704x480
INFO: Audio ch 0 format: ac3/2ch, 48khz drc

ERR:  Cannot jump to chapter 3 of title 1, only 2 exist
ERR:  in VTSM pgc 0, button 3
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ERROR: Failed while running dvdauthor. Result: 1
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