This is a known problem we've seen previously with ffmpeg. See http://opencast.jira.com/browse/MH-4364 . Depending on your source media, you can try the encoding profile changes described in the ticket.
Josh On Oct 8, 2011, at 1:10 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Hi, > > I'm quite desperate: all week long we've been trying to get a 3hours lecture > processed, but it never succeeds. It takes forever, and always there was an > error short before the ending (various reasons, some I could work around). > > When I look at the logs I notice, that for example the encoding commands of > player-slides (there are like 200 in the file), takes longer and longer and > longer as time goes by. > > The first slides take like 5 seconds, and then it takes more time, so after > like 100 slides it takes 5 minutes to encode the slide. > > I already minimalized the workflow and added threads support to the ffmpeg > (-threads 4) (but jpeg isnt a supported codec for that it seems), but this > did nothing to the problem. > > I have no anymore what to do and where to begin. Is it possible that the > memory leak error is the culprit of this behavior? Is there anything I can do? > > The machine has 6GB of memory, Java Heap Space is set to 2GB, it has 4 cores > active. > > Begging for help, Andreas Krieger > ----------------------- > [email protected] > 01/58801 DW 41523 > mobil: 0664/60 588 4523 > TU Wien > DVR-Nummer: 0005886 > ----------------------- > _______________________________________________ > Matterhorn-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn-users _______________________________________________ Matterhorn-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn-users
