[mythtv] mytharchive error

Paul Harrison mythtv at dsl.pipex.com
Fri May 26 16:57:42 UTC 2006


philippe wrote:
> Le Jeudi 25 Mai 2006 11:26, philippe a écrit :
>   
>> Le Mercredi 24 Mai 2006 23:03, Paul Harrison a écrit :
>>     
>>> Not sure but it looks like the recordingpath variable isn't being set
>>> for some reason. It is set from  from the 'RecordFilePrefix' setting
>>> that is read from the database. I'd start by checking the db query used
>>> to get the settings is returning sane values.
>>>       
>> You are right Paul !
>> I've put a new RecordFilePrefix variable for my frontend HOSTNAME and now
>> it's working !
>>     
>
> Hum.. sorry Paul but I have another error.
> Now it's a dvdauthor error without any explanation.
> How can I find what's append ?
> Another idea ?
>
> 2006-05-26 11:18:39 Creating DVD XML file for dvd author
> 2006-05-26 11:18:39 Menu page 1
> 2006-05-26 11:18:39 Video length is 4496 seconds. Each chapter will be 562 
> seconds
> 2006-05-26 11:18:39 Total size of video files, before multiplexing, is 1606 
> Mbytes, audio is 102 MBytes, menus are 3 MBytes.
> 2006-05-26 11:18:39 Video will fit onto DVD. 2697.7 MBytes of space remaining 
> on recordable DVD.
> 2006-05-26 11:18:39 Multiplexing MPEG stream 
> to /home/philippe/tmp//work/1/final.mpg
> 2006-05-26 11:18:39 Available streams - video and one audio stream
> 2006-05-26 11:18:39 Multiplex started PID=14646
> 2006-05-26 11:18:39 Starting dvdauthor
> 2006-05-26 11:22:25 
> ************************************************************
> 2006-05-26 11:22:25 ERROR: Failed while running dvdauthor
> 2006-05-26 11:22:25 
> ************************************************************
> 2006-05-26 11:22:25 
> 2006-05-26 11:22:28 Terminated
>
> Cheers,
> Philippe
>
>   
In the temp work directory you told mytharchive to use there is a logs 
directory. Look at the mythburn.log it should have all the output 
produced by dvdauthor. Look for any lines that start with ERR: they'll 
be towards the end if there are any.

Paul H.



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