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<tt>yeah, the way animated menus appear to work is extracting a BUNCH
of thumbnails, adding them to the menu, and making a mpg out of the
menu frames.<br>
<br>
all the thumbnails are green for me so i get a movie which looks like a
static green thumbnail, but is actually a constantly changing set of
green thumbnails.<br>
<br>
sigh. I'm gonna have to recompile transcode w/a TON of debug prints.<br>
<br>
I've figured out that the apache transcode is getting different rsults
when probing the .mpg:<br>
<br>
from probe_stream.c:<br>
<br>
case TC_MAGIC_VOB: // VOB program stream<br>
probe_pes(ipipe);<br>
<br>
if(verbose & TC_DEBUG) fprintf(stderr, "att0=%d, att1=%d\n",
ipipe->probe_info->ext_attributes[0],
ipipe->probe_info->ext_attributes[1]);<br>
<br>
from the logs i posted, att1 has a different value (0 under mythweb, 94
in xterm)<br>
<br>
I think that difference is the result of the xterm run printing the
following:<br>
<br>
SCR= 0 ( 0) unit=0 @ offset 0.0000 (sec)<br>
<br>
during the probe_pes call, which appears to mean it recognized the mpg
as a VOB stream. the mythweb version does NOT.<br>
<br>
that's all I've got so far.<br>
<br>
David.<br>
</tt><br>
Neil Bird wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Around about 13/02/06 22:14, David Asher typed ...
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<pre wrap="">Most things are working, but the thumbnails are all coming out green
from transcode. Here's the really odd part, however: the transcode
command run from an xterm works correctly! It only fails when run from
mythweb. To try and rule out permission issues, I su'ed to the apache
user (switched to bash from nologin) and ran the same command and it
still worked! It ONLY produces green thumbnails when run from mythweb.
I've run out of ideas how to debug this.
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Ah, that's the last thing† I've got to look at on my system. I assumed the
'green' icons where indicative of a basic failure as opposed to an incorrect
extraction. Not looked at it yet, but glad to know I'm not alone!
I got the same static greenies when trying to get animated thumbs.
† - not strictly true; main 'main menu' seems to always be shorter than it
ought to be (sometimes loops after only a few seconds).
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