Hello all, having a problem with transcode and was hoping someone could help me out here. I do not understand, I use the same options on other xvid files and it works fine. This is probably the largest one I've tried it on, though. I have tried with ffmpeg .5 and also the latest SVN checkout release of ffmpeg, same error.

~/#transcode -i blahblah.avi -y ffmpeg --export_prof dvd-ntsc --export_asr 2 -o video -D0 -s2 -m audio.ac3 -J modfps=clonetype=3 --export_fps 29.97

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[export_ffmpeg.so] v0.3.18 (2008-11-29) (video) Lavc52.20.0 | (audio) MPEG/AC3/PCM
[import_mp3.so] MP3->PCM
[import_mp3.so] tcextract -a 0 -i "blahblah.avi" -x mp3 -d 0 | tcdecode -x mp3 -d 0 -z 48000
[import_mp3.so] critical: popen pcm stream: Cannot allocate memory
[transcode] critical: audio import module error: OPEN failed
[transcode] critical: failed to open input source
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~/# file blahblah.avi
blahblah.avi: RIFF (little-endian) data, AVI, 720 x 304, 29.97 fps, video: XviD, audio: MPEG-1 Layer 3 (stereo, 48000 Hz)

Using transcode version 1.1.2

Tried latest stable release of transcode (1.1.0), same error.

Now I'm going to try swapping out the video files since I've switched harddrives and maybe files are now corrupt. Will update afterwards.

New discovery!

This *works* on my old hard drive, I recently copied everything over to a new drive, where it produces the error. The new drive is larger, and so are all the partitions, so I can't see drive space being a problem. It produces the error when run as root as well. I used diff on the /usr/lib/transcode directories, came up with nothing. I've reinstalled ffmpeg, transcode, and all dependencies on the new drive. Somebody please help?

Well, good news...sorta.

A fresh install of Slack and now it works...but that means there was something conflicting on the system and now I'll never know what it was. Most likely some software that I built and still have backed up. I dread the day the problem reappears.