Have a R5C7 system working with 3 PVR-x50 cards and an HD-3000 recording QAM HD with DVB. All tuners work fine. I can use lossless transcoding on the mpg files created by the PVR's just fine to clip out commercials. However, I get a backend error if I try to transcode the mpg output of the HD-3000.

Backend log entry :

2007-01-06 09:18:23.166 Transcode Starting for A Clockwork Orange: 15.6 GB (Autodetect)
2007-01-06 09:18:23.400 Using runtime prefix = /usr
2007-01-06 09:18:23.434 New DB connection, total: 1
2007-01-06 09:18:23.448 Enabled verbose msgs: important
2007-01-06 09:18:23.462 New DB connection, total: 2
2007-01-06 09:18:23.464 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2007-01-06 09:18:23.480 Transcoding from /myth/tv/6206_20070105033000.mpg to /myth/tv/6206_20070105033000.mpg.tmp
2007-01-06 09:18:23.540 Connecting to backend server: 192.168.2.10:6543 (try 1 of 5)
2007-01-06 09:18:23.559 Using protocol version 26
2007-01-06 09:18:23.566 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
2007-01-06 09:18:23.568 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)
0: start_time: 3946.145 duration: 809.571
1: start_time: 3946.096 duration: 809.554
2: start_time: 3946.095 duration: 809.568
stream: start_time: 43845.500 duration: 8995.791 bitrate=14879 kb/s
2007-01-06 09:18:25.103 AFD: Opened codec 0x80e6230, id(MPEG2VIDEO) type(Video)
2007-01-06 09:18:25.128 AFD: Opened codec 0x80e67b0, id(AC3) type(Audio)
2007-01-06 09:18:25.131 AFD: Opened codec 0x80e6d30, id(AC3) type(Audio)
2007-01-06 09:18:25.305 New DB connection, total: 3
2007-01-06 09:18:25.310 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2007-01-06 09:18:25.345 Switching to MPEG-2 transcoder.
2007-01-06 09:18:25.407 Opening /myth/tv/6206_20070105033000.mpg
2007-01-06 09:18:25.482 Input #0, mpegts, from '/myth/tv/6206_20070105033000.mpg':
2007-01-06 09:18:25.484 Duration: N/A, bitrate: N/A
2007-01-06 09:18:25.486 Stream #0.0[0x800], 29.97 fps(r): Video: mpeg2video, yuv420p, 1920x1080, 25000 kb/s
2007-01-06 09:18:25.488 Stream #0.1[0x801](eng): Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, 5:1, 384 kb/s
2007-01-06 09:18:25.508 Stream #0.2[0x802](spa): Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, stereo, 96 kb/s
2007-01-06 09:18:25.560 #0 PTS:12:10:46.054 Delta: 0.0ms queue: 18
2007-01-06 09:18:25.562 #1 PTS:12:10:46.026 Delta: 27.6111ms queue: 2
2007-01-06 09:18:25.575 #2 PTS:12:10:46.043 Delta: 10.9444ms queue: 2
2007-01-06 09:18:26.737 Deadlock detected. One buffer is full when
the other is empty! Aborting


Other posts re this subject seem to be quite stale and I wonder if anyone has had this issue. All I want to do is cut out the commercials but leave the file format alone.

Thanks